It’s much easier to claim you’ve been hacked than to ‘fess up to failing to protect customer data, writes Dylan Reeve. And that appears to be what happened to Christchurch City Council’s He Puna Taimoana hot pools. A better headline for their article would have been ‘Christchurch City Council organisation leaves sensitive information from 20,000 customers unprotected online’. Why, exactly, was a council swimming pool storing sensitive personal data about their customers? In general, storing stuff online is easy and cheap now.

Source: Stuff September 08, 2022 23:25 UTC