Red Cross data breach could have exposed donors to identity theft, cyber security expert says

Information from the Red Cross data breach could have been used for identity theft or sold on the black market if “unsavoury” criminals had obtained it, a computer security expert from the University of Melbourne says.

The personal data of 550,000 blood donors was leaked from the Red Cross Blood Service in what has been described as Australia’s largest security breach.

The organisation said a file containing donor information was placed in an “insecure computer environment” and “accessed by an unauthorised person”.

The file contained the information of people who had donated blood between 2010 and 2016.

The Red Cross said all copies of the data had now been deleted and the risk of the misuse of the data was low. For the full article click here 

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