Tag: Data breach

OAIC Received 242 Data Breach Notifications in Q2 2018

Australia’s acting data protection agency tracked 242 data breach notifications, bringing the year’s total thus far to 305. A majority (59 percent) of those incidents arose from a malicious or criminal attack. Even so, human error was responsible for 36 percent of those breaches.

Data Breach Affects 1.5 Million Singaporeans

A government healthcare group database in Singapore suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of 1.5 million people. On 4 July 2018, investigators with Integrated Health Information System (IHiS) detected strange activity on one of the IT databases owned by SingHealth, Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions. The administrators responded by implementing additional […]