# Data Breach

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# check in

Glitch in Ryanair app let users access other people's boarding passes

The office of the Data Protection Commissioner has been in touch with the airline.

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Jun 23rd 2015, 3:22 PM

# Data Breach

Parents registering their kids for GP care were shown other people's details

The website for the new system has been beset with problems since it went live yesterday.

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Jun 16th 2015, 4:13 PM

# Data Breach

Photocopies of college students' passports left in a skip on busy street

The college says all of the sensitive information has been recovered.

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Apr 23rd 2015, 10:37 PM

# Oops

Immigration officer accidentally leaked world leaders' passport numbers

An email with the details was inadvertently sent to the wrong person by an Australian immigration department worker.

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Mar 30th 2015, 8:07 AM

# shattered

Alan Shatter loses appeal against Mick Wallace data breach decision

The former minister was found to have broken the law when he made comments on RTÉ’s Prime Time about Wallace benefiting from garda discretion.

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Jan 21st 2015, 11:50 AM

# Social Protection

There were 24 data breaches in Joan Burton's department this year

Most of the cases were due to “genuine error”, the Tánaiste said.

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Dec 30th 2014, 8:25 PM

# University of Limerick

Data breach made student grant applications visible on website

The grant applications included bank account information and details of parents’ incomes.

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Dec 2nd 2014, 8:53 AM

David Hall: What New Beginning is doing has been an abysmal failure before

The mortgage debt advocate has slammed the planned mortgage-to-rent scheme.

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Dec 1st 2014, 10:18 AM

# Data Breach

New Beginning 'didn't sell clients data... an email was sent by mistake'

Co-founder Ross Maguire denies that the information was sold.

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Nov 30th 2014, 8:22 PM

# Data Breach

Ex-Garda working as a PI illegally obtained info from PULSE

Information from PULSE and from the ESB was provided to the investigator, who was trying to trace people for a number of credit unions.

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Nov 24th 2014, 6:01 PM

# drip drip drip

Again? Irish Water sends customer's private details to the wrong person

“If I’d made half the mistakes they made today, I’d lose my business…”

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Nov 18th 2014, 11:15 PM

# Data Breach

Laptop containing children's personal details stolen from car of HSE staff member

The laptop contained the age groups, schools, addresses and phone numbers of a number of children.

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Nov 12th 2014, 7:00 PM

# Data Breach

New scandal: 10 Irish Water customers had their bank details sent to their landlords

“It’s an absolute shambles,” one affected customer said, after waiting on the phone for an hour to speak to Irish Water’s customer care team.

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Oct 22nd 2014, 6:35 AM

# Data Breach

Biggest US bank reveals 76 million customers were hacked

User contact information, like names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, was compromised.

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Oct 3rd 2014, 10:37 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 It’s Thursday – and here’s all that you need to know as you start your day.

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Jul 31st 2014, 8:23 AM

# Online Security

1 in 5 US internet users have had bank account details and personal data stolen - survey

It shows a sharp increase since the last survey in 2013.

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Apr 14th 2014, 3:45 PM

# my business

It's Data Protection day - are you up to speed on your data privacy rights?

European data protection reform could be introduced before the end of this year.

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Jan 28th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Malware

Hackers steal more than 16 million email account details in Germany

The BSI uncovered the security breach after it ran an analysis of botnets, which can be used to carry out attacks.

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Jan 22nd 2014, 10:08 AM

Voices

Column: The EU seems just as interested in your data as the NSA

Searching questions need to be asked over what type of data the EU retains – and what it does with this data, writes David Moloney.

Nov 27th 2013, 7:30 PM

Voices

Column: The Loyaltybuild breach shows it's time to take data protection seriously

In countries lucky enough not to have suffered under a police state, data protection concerns do not always alarm the ordinary citizen. We need to wake up, writes Fergal Crehan.

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Nov 15th 2013, 7:00 PM

# Data Breach

Loyaltybuild boss writes open letter apologising to customers as more firms hit by breach

The data breach has affected up to 1.5 million customers across Europe. The gardaí and the Data Protection Commissioner are investigating.

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Nov 15th 2013, 1:52 PM

# Data Breach

Stolen credit cards may have been used fraudulently in Loyaltybuild breach

The Taoiseach and Minister of State for Tourism are calling for companies to put extra resources into protecting customer’s card details.

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Nov 14th 2013, 11:27 AM

# Driving Licence

Breach on new driving licence website affects 721 people

The ‘Contact Us’ form on the new website was not refreshing as quickly as it should have and so details of users remained when the next users went to fill it in.

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Nov 12th 2013, 9:40 PM

# Data Breach

Over 500,000 potentially affected by loyalty scheme breach

An initial inspection report has found that the names, addresses and other details of some 1.12 million clients have also been compromised.

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Nov 12th 2013, 8:55 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you have concerns about using your credit card online?

More details of a major security breach have appeared this morning.

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Nov 12th 2013, 9:42 AM

# getawaybreaks

Supervalu warns 38,000 customers over possible data breach

A potential security breach was uncovered at a loyalty-programme company that runs the “Getawaybreaks” promotion for the supermarket chain. The Data Protection Commissioner has been informed.

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Nov 5th 2013, 4:26 PM

# confidential

Eleven breaches of patient data at HSE hospitals in six months

The HSE said breaches could have included the placing of a referral letter in the wrong chart or the a document sent to a person with the same name as a patient.

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Oct 7th 2013, 10:48 PM

# News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about the government asking Facebook for users’ information and intervention in Syria.

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Aug 27th 2013, 11:00 PM

# ibrc

Data breach involving payments to current and former IBRC staff

Dozens of current and former staff at the former Anglo Irish Bank have been affected by the data breach.

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Aug 23rd 2013, 7:26 PM

# Ming v Shatter

Ming: Shatter released info about me, but I'm not saying what that info is

Independent TD Luke Ming Flanagan would not discuss the substance of a complaint he has made to the Data Protection Commissioner about the Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

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May 30th 2013, 7:40 PM

# Benefit claimants

UK: Jobseekers could be remotely monitored on compulsory website

The website allows unemployed users to upload a CV to be matched to suitable job openings.

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Dec 21st 2012, 10:22 AM

# Data Protection

O2 admits to loss of tape which could have customers’ personal data

The mobile phone company, which has 1.6 million customers in Ireland, says there is a “low risk to customer data privacy” and says the tape is likely to be still in an O2 building.

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Dec 4th 2012, 8:55 PM

# Data Protection

Data Protection Commissioner investigating secondary schools' security flaw

The data watchdog has asked the manufacturer of potentially vulnerable software to provide a full list of affected schools.

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Oct 23rd 2012, 7:05 AM

# Data Protection

Irish pupils' records at risk in major data protection threat

A single username and password can be used to log into dozens of school management systems, TheJournal.ie can reveal.

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Oct 20th 2012, 9:34 PM

# Privacy

Breaches of patient information addressed by new guidelines

HIQA issues document for health and social care workers to try to prevent privacy of patient data being breached.

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Sep 13th 2012, 7:45 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here are 9 things to know as you start your day…

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Sep 11th 2012, 8:42 AM

# Airtricity

Airtricity under investigation after disclosure of customer information

The utility company claimed the matter was no longer under investigation but the Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed its investigation is ongoing.

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Aug 31st 2012, 4:12 PM