About the data breach
Personal information of more than 20,000 members of the public has been stolen in a data breach at Christchurch City Council’s He Puna Taimoana hot pools.
The stolen information consists copies of driver’s licenses, rates invoices, passports, utility bills, tenancy agreements, and other council membership cards- all contents given by pool users as residence proof.
The data breach was found on August 24. Pool users were contacted two weeks later- from an email by Nigel Cox, the council’s head of recreation and sport.
According to him, they were informed about the hack by a third party who had been contacted by an individual who claims to have accessed and downloaded some files stored on the He Puna Taimoana cloud server.
Following this, Cox has a reason to believe in that the third party who got access and illegally downloaded the files stored on the He Puna Taimoana cloud server is a ‘white hat hacker’, an actor who compromises computer systems or networks to find vulnerabilities to promote improvement or advancement of the systems and network security.
“The security of your information is Christchurch City Council’s upmost priority and we appreciate the need to provide information regarding the breach to you as quickly as possible”
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