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Hacks and data breaches: recognise critical lessons

February 21, 2017

In the Netherlands, we have already found that our electoral system is far from risk-free and also now appears that the national tax organisation ‘Belastingdienst’ and the Dutch Land Registry’s, named Kadaster are also hacked. Russia, China and Iran have made hundreds of attempts to hack into Dutch government departments …
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Current status of Dutch health data breaches

December 21, 2016

Dutch hospitals already reported 304 cases of lost sensitive information. The official report does not provide all the details, because these may be traced to individual patients or hospitals. Since 1 January 2016, the data breach notification obligation has entered into force. This obligation means that organisations (companies as well …
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