There is a large-scale trade in millions of residential addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and social security numbers from the two main corona systems of the GGD. Police over the weekend arrested two people suspected of this illegal data trade. This concerns trade in data from two corona systems of the GGD: CoronIT, which contains […]
The idea of global vaccination and health data being stored in centralized systems has many privacy experts freaking out. As the first vaccines against COVID-19 roll out, governments and institutions across the world are scrambling to figure out how to provide proof that someone has been vaccinated. Paper certificates, PDFs, wristbands and mobile apps have […]
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the Privacy Shield, the international treaty that covered the transfer of data from the European Union to the United States. The Court stated that the transfer of data to the United States is not safe for European citizens, and for this reason […]
Creating, remembering and using passwords is tedious, frustrating, time-consuming and not 100% secure, because even the strongest password can be stolen and misused. That is why the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) is campaigning from October 2020 to promote better security of accounts. Watch this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phLcILslhbQ&feature=emb_logo
One of the email encryption providers like SwitchMail encrypts all incoming emails by default. However, a ruling by the Cologne Regional Court is now forcing the company to install a function with which investigators can monitor individual mailboxes and read emails in plain text. In the summer, the Hanover Regional Court decided that email encryption […]
A hack took place on the old member portal of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU), whereby the details of 90,000 members were stolen. This includes name, e-mail address, telephone number and address details. The hack took place on the old MijnKNWU environment. The required sum (ransomware) has not been met to the hacker. […]
According to VoetbalTV, a commercial and legitimate interest can co-exist within the AVG. The judge agrees. “The prior exclusion of a certain interest as a legitimate interest is contrary to European case law.” “Proportionality and subsidiarity were not part of that assessment. Nor did the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) weigh up the interests at […]
South Korea’s privacy watchdog (PIPC) has fined Facebook millions for providing users’ personal information to companies. According to the data protector, the data of at least 3.3 million local Facebook users would have been shared without permission with up to 10,000 companies. Personal data such as relationship statuses, work experience and education were shared with […]
Researchers have discovered hundreds of thousands of stolen Spotify passwords in an unsecured database accessible to anyone on the Internet. The credentials had been stolen from other websites and then used to log in to Spotify accounts of users who reuse their passwords. The total 72 gigabyte Elasticsearch database contained more than 380 million records. […]
RTL News has gained access to a secret consultation between the European defense ministers. This was possible because the Twitter account of Minister Ank Bijleveld briefly contained a photo with the login address and part of the pin code. With a few tries the RTL News reporter succeeded in guessing the pin code of the […]