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# Data Breach

This month
November 2023
Electric Ireland warns that thousands of customer accounts may have been compromised
An employee from a third-party company is understood to have accessed around 8,000 customers’ personal information.
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Nov 8th 2023, 5:21 PM
This year
2023
Woman wrongly linked to PSNI on poster fears she has been made a target
Police have launched an investigation into the poster at a bus shelter in Dungiven.
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Sep 2nd 2023, 7:59 PM
‘Police details’ poster in bus shelter contained incorrect information – PSNI
Last month details of about 10,000 officers and staff were mistakenly released online in a major data breach.
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Sep 1st 2023, 9:28 PM
Poster with details of three serving PSNI officers placed on bus shelter in Derry
This incident comes after personal data on all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published last month.
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Sep 1st 2023, 2:41 PM
Court dismisses claim DPC failed to fully investigate complaint over alleged Google data breach
The complaint was made by Dr Johnny Ryan, who is a senior fellow of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
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Aug 28th 2023, 2:03 PM
Man appears in court on terror charges linked to major PSNI data breach
50-year-old Christopher Paul O’Kane was refused bail and remanded in custody for four weeks.
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Aug 21st 2023, 1:04 PM
Man (50) due in court for possessing documents following PSNI data breach
The PSNI’s Chief Constable believes information could be used by dissident republicans to target police officers.
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Aug 21st 2023, 7:16 AM
Man to appear in court following major data breach at PSNI
The man has been charged with possessing documents or records likely to be useful to terrorists and possession of articles for use in terrorism.
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Aug 20th 2023, 7:31 AM
Man charged with possessing PSNI information obtained through data breach
A 50 year old man is due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday.
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Aug 19th 2023, 6:57 PM
PSNI investigate loss of laptop and notebook as man arrested in probe following major data breach
PSNI detectives this morning carried out a search in the Dungiven area of Co Derry.
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Aug 18th 2023, 12:01 PM
Archbishop asks Catholics to support PSNI in wake of data breach as man questioned by detectives
Detectives have arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of “collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists”.
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Aug 16th 2023, 7:14 PM
PSNI chief confident information released in data breach is in hands of dissident republicans
A Sinn Féin MLA today said dissident republicans published redacted information from the data breach on the wall of a library in Belfast.
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Aug 14th 2023, 5:30 PM
200 police officers and staff not told of theft involving data for a month
The Police Service of Northern Ireland the theft on July 6 was not reported until July 27 and then investigated.
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Aug 12th 2023, 6:42 PM
Dissident republicans claim to have information after PSNI data breach, Chief Constable says
Some 10,000 PSNI officers and staff have been affected by the breach, which emerged on Tuesday.
Chief Constable Simon Byrne was questioned by politicians at the emergency meeting of the Policing Board this afternoon.
He said he is “deeply sorry” over the “industrial scale breach of data”.
'Critical incident' declared following PSNI data breach as second document theft emerges
Explainer: Why is the PSNI data breach so serious?
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Aug 10th 2023, 3:20 PM
'Critical incident' declared following PSNI data breach as second document theft emerges
Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the data breach appeared to be the result of ‘simple human error’.
The incident happened when the PSNI responded to an FOI request seeking the number of officers and staff at all ranks and grades across the organisation.
The data was potentially viewable by the public for between 2.5 to three hours.
It emerged today that a separate data breach occurred last month after the theft of documents from a private vehicle.
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Aug 9th 2023, 8:30 PM
PSNI confirms major data breach as Assistant Chief Constable apologises
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd apologised to officers, saying: ‘This is unacceptable.’
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Aug 8th 2023, 9:56 PM
Over 1,000 patients of UL Hospitals Group affected by data breach involving 'unknown party'
The patients’ personal and medical information was accidentally emailed to an unknown third party by a staff member.
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Jun 1st 2023, 6:27 PM
Investigation underway into cyber attack affecting charities for sexual assault survivors
Around 1,000 people being supported by one organisation alone may have been affected.
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Apr 17th 2023, 1:50 PM
Gardaí and delivery firm Fastway among those reprimanded by watchdog for data breaches in 2022
The Data Protection Commission said there were 5,828 GDPR data breaches reported last year, down 12% on 2021.
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Mar 7th 2023, 6:48 AM
More than 200 cyber attacks with theft of personal data reported to Irish authorities in a year
Data Protection Commission investigators are examining the reports in keeping with the GDPR reporting laws.
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Feb 20th 2023, 12:05 AM
Last year
2022
Government ministers to be banned from using phones at Cabinet meetings from today
The Minister for Finance confirmed the ban this morning,
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Dec 21st 2022, 10:54 AM
Data leak reveals Credit Suisse bank accepted 'autocrats, war criminals and human traffickers'
German daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung received the data last year.
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Feb 21st 2022, 10:39 AM
All time
Apache Pizza announce data breach associated with details of delivery customers
The Data Protection Commission has been notified of the breach and Apache Pizza said they will contact gardaí.
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Jun 6th 2021, 8:18 AM
Lead cyber crime garda issues advice to public struck by data leak from HSE ransomware attack
The data of 520 patients has appeared online since the cyber attack.
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Jun 3rd 2021, 1:20 PM
HSE hack: A sensitive Tusla database dealing with child protection cases can't be accessed
The Tusla database holds information on current and previous child care cases.
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May 21st 2021, 8:00 PM
Personal data of MyHome.ie customers 'inadvertently' leaked online
The Data Protection Commissioner has been notified.
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May 19th 2021, 9:38 AM
Data Protection Commission launches probe into Facebook over user data breach
The dataset leaked online included phone numbers and email addresses from Facebook users
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Apr 14th 2021, 4:16 PM
Department apologises after 'careless' data breach of people attending mother and baby home redress meetings
Those affected by the breach are “deeply upset and distressed” by the sharing of their email addresses without their consent.
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Mar 25th 2021, 4:12 PM
Fastway Couriers apologises after customer data from over 440,000 parcel deliveries hacked
Customer data relating to more than 400,000 parcel deliveries was accessed by hackers.
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Mar 11th 2021, 6:22 PM
Tusla suffers 23 'high risk' data breaches - including stolen files and loss of devices - since last year
The vast majority of the cases involved an “employee error or omission”.
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Aug 17th 2020, 6:30 AM
Home addresses of UK Honours recipients accidentally published online
It has been described as a “farcical and inexcusable mistake”.
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Dec 28th 2019, 7:29 PM
Former INM executive Joe Webb takes legal action against the media company
Webb, the former CEO of INM Ireland, was one of the so-called #INM19 who allegedly had their emails accessed by an external company.
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Oct 2nd 2019, 5:29 PM
Data Protection Commission notified over 2018 breach by State Examinations Commission
The breach, which occurred last year, affected 64 medical card holders.
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Aug 18th 2019, 7:30 AM
Facebook says whatever fine it faces over password breach is matter for Irish data watchdog
The Data Protection Commissioner has launched a statutory inquiry into Facebook’s password storage breach.
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Apr 26th 2019, 6:06 PM
Debt collector data breach results in some mortgage-holders' details being compromised
The breach resulted in names, contact information, and financial details being compromised.
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Apr 11th 2019, 9:00 PM
'Digital gangsters' at Facebook knowingly violated data privacy and 'bullied' other tech companies
A report by the UK government has examined the tech giant’s role in spreading fake news.
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Feb 18th 2019, 8:23 AM
Anti-abortion protesters say they received 'reliable information' on abortions taking place in Drogheda hospital
This is at least the second time this year that people have protested outside the hospital.
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Feb 1st 2019, 4:37 PM
Facebook says it no longer lets companies like Netflix, Spotify read users' private messages
Facebook said the partnerships did allow features like “messaging integrations” but nearly all have been shut down over the past few months.
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Dec 20th 2018, 7:30 AM
Health body apologises after email addresses of 200 job applicants are incorrectly shared in email
The Data Protection Commissioner has been informed of the incident.
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Dec 15th 2018, 7:30 AM
NUIG data breach concerns as USB possibly storing student details goes missing
All students who may have been impacted have been notified.
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Nov 19th 2018, 7:39 PM
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