Blog Topic: Data Breach

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, French shipbuilding firm DCNS has confirmed a “serious” data leak from their organisation, and that national authorities have launched investigations. Over twenty thousand documents detailing combat capability of the French organisation’s Scorpene-class submarines have been leaked, causing… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Last month, the personal data of more than 1,900 pupils from Henry Park Primary School was leaked, in the second high profile data leak to happen in Singapore in the last year. A Microsoft Excel document containing the… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes On the afternoon of December 4th an email was sent from Hellgate High School to 32 email addresses containing an attachment with information from a parent meeting the night before. While generic day to day information such as the… Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute The month of September got off to a shaky start for London’s 56 Dean Street HIV clinic, after revealing the identities of many hundreds of HIV-positive patients within a group email. In a major breach of personal data, consisting… Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute The revelation this week that the Australian Immigration Department accidentally leaked the personal data of 31 world leaders has once again highlighted the reputational damage resulting from data loss by email. The data included passport numbers and dates of… Read More