Review of Tuia250 data breach bad end of year for PM
The Prime Minister’s year has ended badly with the
release of the review of the Tuia250 data breach,
National’s Cybersecurity spokesperson Dr Shane Reti
says.
“This is the Prime Minister’s own
Ministry, she knew the report was bad and has cynically sat
on it until the last week of the year when it could not be
scrutinised by Parliament.
“The independent review
found three privacy breaches, out of date policies and
raised a conflict of interest with staff and the website
supplier.
“The key fault was a change approved by
the Deputy Chief Executive of Tuia250 that was outside of
the contract and that altered the website from being
promotional to collecting personal data.
“At that
time the previous security settings that allowed information
to be downloaded were not changed, and all of the personal
information became searchable by web engines and
downloadable.
“The website supplier was not on
the approved panel of suppliers and was initially
recommended by a member of staff with whom there was a
‘connection and a professional relationship’. This
relationship was known by other staff and management but
regardless the contract was initially directed to only that
supplier.
“The staff member was eventually recused
from further decision making but not before providing
information that helped the supplier eventually win a
contestable Request for Proposal to build the site.
“Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Jacinda Ardern
has many questions to answer. This is a very serious matter,
the Prime Minister has overseen more young people having
their personal data breached this year than any other
Minster, and yet her attitude in Parliament to the four
breaches has been flippant and dismissive.
“Jacinda Ardern has been distracted and taken her eyes
off her own Ministry, and has allowed 71 young people to
have their personal data accessed. That is completely
unacceptable, and for the Minister to release this
information just before Christmas is deeply cynical.”
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