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Residents of Wellington and Waikato Captured
Wellingtonians' personal data was captured in a global data breach.
It was revealed that hackers broke into the Typeform server, a low-cost online consulting tool used by the city of Wellington. Council, for a period of half an hour in June.
Residents who provided online comments to council are affected and notified of the violation in an email received on Thursday evening.
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If you provided Council with feedback online, your data may have been compromised.
including name, email address, residential address, trade names, sex and phone numbers were accessed by hackers on June 27.
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were affected.
"Given the nature of the violation, we recommend you pay attention to possible phishing scams (emails from unknown recipients requesting information) or spam," said an email sent to residents. deleted
The board stated that it would only use Typeform for future consultations when once assured of its safety.
"We appreciate your submissions and it is very important to us that you have a secure channel to share your information easily and securely."
In a statement on his website, Typeform said that an unknown third party was accessing his information.
The attacker obtained data from his servers collected from users before May 3.
Typeform has indicated that it is ensured that the security vulnerability has been corrected before informing the clients.
"We want to assure you that we take data security and data confidentiality very seriously, and we do everything we can to take steps to rebuild the trust you have placed in us." I had a data breach. If you were assigned, you will receive an e-mail from us. Click here to read more: https://t.co/dFVhn1nAht
We are here to help ❤️
– Typeform (@typeform)
June 29, 2018
Companies such as Harvey Norman and the British Travelodge chain were also affected by the same attack, with at least one Australian council and the Tasmanian Electoral Commission.
Residents of Waikato were also affected, with Hamilton City Council, Waikato District Council and Waipā District Council notifying 2800 people of the breach on Thursday.
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