Data Protection Officer
When do companies have to appoint a data protection officer? Learn about the tasks and position of a data protection officer.
Entries by Caroline Schwabe
Data breach: police headquarters Neubrandenburg
Police officer confuses e-mail address with press distribution list and sends to 158 media representatives at the request of a private individual.
Data breach in Ecuador
Personal data of 17 million people from Ecuador published online on servers of Elasticsearch Also included was information about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Data breach: health data
Highly sensitive medical data stored worldwide on servers without password protection The approximately 16 million data records come from 50 countries worldwide. In Germany, 13,000 patients are affected.
Data range Facebook phone numbers
Around 420 million data records, including telephone numbers of Facebook users, primarily from the USA, Great Britain and Vietnam, were freely accessible on the Internet.
Data failure Bavarian Red Cross
The State Office for Data Protection Supervision has started investigations against the BRK regarding a possible transfer of health data to Facebook.
Data breakdown school Sweden
The Swedish Data Protection Agency imposes its first fine for GDPR violation on a school in Skelleftea.
Data breach Mastercard
Data such as mobile phone numbers, addresses and birthdays of almost 90,000 customers of the bonus program Priceless Specials have appeared on the Internet.
Data breach Biometric data
Serious data breach at Suprema, the Korean security solutions manufacturer. Fingerprint and facial recognition data was publicly available.
Twitter user data advertisers
Information on the country code and whether and when ads were viewed was passed on. According to Twitter, the data mishap was fixed on 05.08.2019.
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