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Friday October 28, 2016

Contractor behind Australia's biggest-ever data breach revealed

By Allie Coyne

Exclusive: How human error exposed 550,000 donors.

Over four frantic days that must have felt like mere minutes, the Red Cross Blood Service has been battling to deal with a data breach that exposed the sensitive personal and medical records of 550,000 of its donors online.

An anonymous individual stumbled across the 1.74GB file containing 1.28 million records while scanning IP address ranges for publicly exposed web servers containing .sql files.

The Red Cross Blood Service became aware of the blunder on Tuesday morning through a chain of communications that included...

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