A Sydney health worker believes he is part of a 108,535 document data breach involving NSW driver's licences after recognising his mother's kitchen bench in a photo published by the ABC.
A Sydney health worker says he was left "sickened" when he realised his NSW driver's licence was part of a significant data breach.Because of this, it can't determine the people who have been affectedTransport for NSW are yet to alert up to 54,000 people whose driver's licence details were mistakenly left exposed in open cloud storage.ABC had published the details of the "dangerous" data breach.
"Investigations by Cyber Security NSW into an apparent data breach of NSW Driver Licences by a commercial entity confirms this matter is not related to NSW Government processes, systems or storage in any way," they said."As Transport for NSW is not the owner of the folder and does not have access to its contents, the identities of all those who may have been affected cannot be determined," a spokesperson said.
"I am concerned about my own identity and also confident in my ability to tie up loose ends, but if it was my mum or dad, for example, they would probably be much more vulnerable than I am." After the data leak, the NSW Opposition pressured the State Government to name the commercial company involved.
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