The European Parliament’s headache over a major human resources data breach earlier this year just won’t fade. Austria-based digital rights group noyb on Thursday said it had filed two complaints against the European Union institution for infringing the bloc’s flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), over a data breach discovered before the summer.
In June, Parliament notified up to 9,000 staffers that it had suffered a data breach of its recruitment application PEOPLE, which contained staffers’ ID details, birth certificates, employment history, medical records, marriage certificates — which revealed sexual orientation — and proof of work dating back 10 years.
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Source: Politico Europe
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