New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure was breached more than a hundred times since 2015, Stuff reports. The database contains administrative and census data, including personal information of nearly all New Zealand citizens. Officials with Stats NZ, the agency that oversees the IDI, said no citizen’s privacy was breached as a result of the unauthorized access. Since 2018, the IDI granted access to more than 1,400 researchers and breaches were mostly attributed to rounding errors by researchers.
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