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Several Dutch agencies suffer major data breach (en.apa.az)

submitted 6 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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Personal data of employees of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) and the Council for Justice was accessed by unauthorized persons as a result of a leak caused by a vulnerability in software used by government agencies, APA reports citing ANP news agency.

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[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No sympathy after their warrentless siezure of a Windscribe VPN server a day ago.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Your linked article says they did have a warrant.

<...> noting that Dutch officials executed a warrant without prior notice.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 6 days ago

Right, so the authority for managing data protection had their data leaked. Totally cool and normal 👍😆