Privacy Commission aware of vulnerable database for weeks

Privacy Commission aware of vulnerable database for weeks
Dan Brunskill
A database which made public thousands of New Zealanders' personal information was left open for months, despite it being reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.Wellington-based LPM Property Management left exposed more than 30,000 images of landlords and tenants’ passports, driver’s licences and other personal documents which were stored in an unsecured Amazon Web Services database.Irish-based Jake Dixon, a co-founder of cyber security consultancy Vadix Solutions who discovered the public database, said it...

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