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Personal data of 550,000 Red Cross blood donors was breached

The leak in Australia happened because a file was left unsecured by a third party provider.

Personal data of Red Cross blood donors

Credit: IDGNS

The Australian Red Cross said its blood donor service has found that registration information of 550,000 donors had been compromised, which the agency blamed on human error by a third-party contractor.

The moot issue at this point, which may decide how the breach unfolds, is that nobody knows how many people have the data. The information from 2010 to 2016 was available on the website from Sept. 5 to Oct. 25. this year.