• Denmark sent sensitive health data to Chinese by mistake
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[quote]Sensitive health information about almost the entire population of Denmark ended up in the wrong hands when a letter by mistake was sent to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish Data Protection Agency said on Wednesday. The incident happened when two unencrypted CDs containing the data was sent last year by the Serum Institute, a public enterprise under the Danish health ministry, in an envelope to the country's statistics office.[/quote] [quote]The letter contained information on cancer, diabetes and psychiatric diagnoses as well as other data such as social security numbers, according to documents seen by Reuters. When a visa center employee delivered the letter to the intended address, it had been opened, the agency said in a statement.[/quote] [url]http://reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10025I[/url]
Nice. Material to know who to blackmail or ask for return of favours. China's intelligence office must be having a party right now.
Whoops
social security numbers, eh? wouldn't be surprised if there's riots over this
[QUOTE=DETrooper;50748116]social security numbers, eh? wouldn't be surprised if there's riots over this[/QUOTE] There's not. Like at all. I just looked through one of the major paper's website here in Denmark. It's a minor article long from the top. When reading statements and such, it's all a big joke. SSI (Serum Institute, who sent these cds) blame the mail service for not delivering it correctly, and says that "they've always used priority mail as a way to send data, but we see it's a problem and now we're encrypting data". Without any guilt. "We dont think we're to blame". The rest of the people asked for comments were on holiday. I'd think these things should be taken a much more serious, but as an Article on Berlingske mentions, som data protection agency has already warned them before, but; "they seem unwilling to comply and responds like they've given up on data protection". Disgusting if you ask me.
[QUOTE=ms333;50748181]There's not. Like at all. I just looked through one of the major paper's website here in Denmark. It's a minor article long from the top. When reading statements and such, it's all a big joke. SSI (Serum Institute, who sent these cds) blame the mail service for not delivering it correctly, and says that "they've always used priority mail as a way to send data, but we see it's a problem and now we're encrypting data". Without any guilt. "We dont think we're to blame". The rest of the people asked for comments were on holiday. I'd think these things should be taken a much more serious, but as an Article on Berlingske mentions, som data protection agency has already warned them before, but; "they seem unwilling to comply and responds like they've given up on data protection". Disgusting if you ask me.[/QUOTE] sending unencrypted SSN's through the mail why
[QUOTE=Radical_ed;50748234]sending unencrypted SSN's through the mail why[/QUOTE] The subject lost more attention after some agency said that: "we've investigated the situation and asked the chinese if they looked at the cds and they said no" after that a few key people went out and said "of course its not ok, but i think we're in the clear after the report claiming they didnt look at it." This shouldn't really be the topic tbh. but rather how government agencies can be so careless about sensitive data.
[QUOTE=ms333;50748262]The subject lost more attention after some agency said that: "we've investigated the situation and asked the chinese if they looked at the cds and they said no" after that a few key people went out and said "of course its not ok, but i think we're in the clear after the report claiming they didnt look at it." This shouldn't really be the topic tbh. but rather how government agencies can be so careless about sensitive data.[/QUOTE] the chinese said they didn't look at it but somehow i doubt any country that got access to that info would admit they looked at it if they did
It's pretty fucking dumb at the very least. Don't know how you could treat so much information with so little care.
[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;50748093]Nice. Material to know who to blackmail or ask for return of favours. China's intelligence office must be having a party right now.[/QUOTE] Uh, blackmail how exactly? [editline]21st July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=DETrooper;50748116]social security numbers, eh? wouldn't be surprised if there's riots over this[/QUOTE] What a ridiculous hyperbole.
[QUOTE=DeEz;50748648]What a ridiculous hyperbole.[/QUOTE] Hyperbole in Europe, but I think in the US social security numbers carry far more weight since they can be used as authtenticators for various financial purposes afaik.
Not sure if i'm more dissapointed by the fact that our supposed cutting-edge health and safety department is still using CDs
Even my danish healthcare is being outsourced. Fuck!
[QUOTE=Tools;50748832]Not sure if i'm more dissapointed by the fact that our supposed cutting-edge health and safety department is still using CDs[/QUOTE] mailing harddrives or disks has a much higher bandwidth tyan emailing all that data its how google does data transfers anyway, they mail the drives around instead of trying to find a fast enough connection
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50748295]the chinese said they didn't look at it but somehow i doubt any country that got access to that info would admit they looked at it if they did[/QUOTE] I don't believe them. The mail arrived back opened. Its not first time. Our governments security is on the same level, as the advage schools network.
[QUOTE=Kecske;50748791]Hyperbole in Europe, but I think in the US social security numbers carry far more weight since they can be used as authtenticators for various financial purposes afaik.[/QUOTE] We use em as such here too.
[QUOTE=Sableye;50749772]mailing harddrives or disks has a much higher bandwidth tyan emailing all that data its how google does data transfers anyway, they mail the drives around instead of trying to find a fast enough connection[/QUOTE] Its true. Sometimes at work if we need to move a TB of data, we just have someone take an external HDD across town. Even with 100 Mb fiber, its simply faster to copy over USB 3.0, and drive 15 minutes.
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