Scandal in Croatia: Personal data belonging to owners of all registered vehicles leaked

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A big scandal has broken out in Croatia after personal data belonging to owners of every vehicle registered in that country was leaked. 24.sata.hr reports that the Agency for Protection of Personal Data was informed that personal information belonging to more than one million individual vehicle owners had been leaked and said they initiated "monitoring proceedings because of the personal data breach."

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2,444,587 vehicle records tied to 1,195,052 individuals have been leaked. The data contains people's name, addresse, JMBG (Unique Master Citizen Number), OIB (Personal Identification Number), date of birth, vehicle registration and other information about vehicles and insurance policies.

"At this moment, we can confirm that the USB stick, i.e. the file it contained, had more than a million records. The agency is conducting monitoring of all relevant entities that have the data affected by the violation to determine who is responsible and how the violation of personal data in question occurred, as well as all other relevant information," stated the Agency for Protection of Personal Data.

Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic also spoke about the scandal:

"On Thursday, when the SOA (security agency) informed the MUP (Interior Ministry) about criminal acts related to the disposal of certain data, the police started an investigation and it is being conducted intensively. It is being conducted as a criminal investigation also through the Data Processing Agency. What has not been confirmed so far is that the data is available on the internet," he said and added:

"This is about a dataset that is additional to what the MUP does. There is data that the MUP does not collect, which indicates that the act occurred in one of the institutions that has access to the MUP data. I repeat, it's important that the data is not in the public space. We can't talk about a classic hacker attack because this was obviously not about unauthorized access to the database," added Bozinovic.

(Telegraf.rs)