Data breach. Red Cross service suffers data breach. Int

Data breach
Red Cross service suffers data breach

Introduction
 Data breach refers to a situation whereby unauthorized person
or institution accesses protected sensitive and confidential data
(Aldossary and Allen, 2016: p.490).
 Some of the causes of data breach include physical attacks,
poor configurations malware, application vulnerabilities and
too many permissions.
 The effects of data breach include lack of confidence from the
customer, use of the information in a wrong way and damage
of the system.

The scenario
 The Australian Red Cross Blood Service is
accusing the Dubious honor as the source of
data breach in their system.
 The data from more than 550,000 donors
have fall on the wrong hands.
 The third party accessed the data on the
website due to human error.

The cause of the data breach
 The Dubious honor company depends on
third party to develop and maintain their
site.
 However, the company did not put in place
security measures on the website.
 At the time of uploading the details of the
blood donors, the hackers took advantage
of the loophole and accessed the data.

The consequence of the data breach
 All the blood donor details including their
health status have been erased (Cheng, Liu
and Yao, 2017: p.34).
 The companies are blaming each other.
 There are emergence of other security
issue, for instance, the online forms are not
able to connect to the database.

Continuation
 The donors doubt whether their credentials
are safe.
 It may be difficult for other people to give
their details to the Red Cross Society in
future because they fear their details are
not in safe hands.
 The system may face other challenges
because the hackers are now controlling it.

Conclusion
 Even though the investigations are underway
to identify the source of the production, there
is already destruction.
 It is important to provide security measures
before taking the data online.
 However, the company should grant access to
few people because many people may have
bad motive of stealing the data for personal
benefit.

References
• Aldossary, S. and Allen, W., 2016. Data security,
privacy, availability and integrity in cloud
computing: issues and current
solutions. International Journal of Advanced
Computer Science and Applications, 7(4), pp.485-
498.
• Cheng, L., Liu, F. and Yao, D.D., 2017. Enterprise
data breach: causes, challenges, prevention, and
future directions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews:
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 7(5).