The massive data breach that hit the Australian Red Cross Blood Service last year was caused by a “one-off human error”, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said on Monday (7 August). Regulators concluded their investigation into the data breach that affected over half a million blood donors in Australia saying it was caused by a “one-off human error” by a third-party provider. In September 2016, a backup copy of a database from the Australian Red Cross that contained the personal details of about 550,000 prospective blood donors was accidentally saved to a public-facing web server by an employee of a third-party provider, rather than the intended secure location
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times
