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USA
In early 2018 the California Department of Fish and Wildlife sent out a message within the organisation notifying the employees of an incident involving personal data theft . Following the discovery of the breach , the organisation conducted a two-month investigation . A former employee of the department uploaded the personal data of 2,300 colleagues , as well as contractors , to his personal portable device and took it outside of the corporate network .
SWITZERLAND
Swisscom mobile network has acknowledged that the personal data of about 800,000 clients ( or every tenth Swiss citizen ) was compromised . The incident was discovered during a routine check .
Representatives of Swisscom announced that the violators used the access rights of a sales partner . The company also reported on changes to the IS policy : access control was improved , numerous customer data requests at one session were disallowed and two-factor authentication for partners to access the data was introduced .
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