Police have confirmed a potential privacy breach of their online notification platform for the firearm buy-back programme. Photo: NZ Herald/filePolice have confirmed a potential privacy breach of their online notification platform for the firearm buy-back programme. "COLFO has learned within the past hour of a massive data breach on the police database for firearm hand-in and compensation," said spokeswoman Nicole McKee. "Information on 70,000 firearm hand-in notifications, the firearms and owner bank account numbers, were accessible to web page users." McKee said the organisation "demands that the web page and whole hand-in application programme is suspended immediately".

Source: Otago Daily Times December 01, 2019 23:48 UTC