Mainz (dpa / lrs) – According to the state data protection officer Dieter Kugelmann, Rhineland-Palatinate is also affected by the nationwide data breach in guest lists. “The first restaurants from Trier and Landau have reported as affected by the data breach,” said Kugelmann on Monday in Mainz. “I assume that more restaurants will be added.” His authority is in contact with the regulatory authority responsible for the Bremen service provider in the Hanseatic city. Kugelmann advises companies that were customers of the service provider to check whether there was a data breach in order to avoid sanctions for failure to report obligations.
Several million data from restaurant guests were barely accessible in the Internet storage of the software service provider. The security gap also affected the electronic recording of visitors in the corona pandemic, as the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) announced on Friday. The Bremen company Gastronovi had confirmed the incident. The security gap was closed two hours after the information from the Chaos Computer Club, the company said. “At the time of the hacker attack, the CCC had potentially access to over four million records,” it said. Apart from the activists, however, no outsider had or attempted to access the data.
Kugelmann emphasized: “Contact details that are recorded and stored in times of the corona pandemic to track Covid 19 infections are sensitive data: They may reveal who met with whom at what time and at what time. ” The level of data protection should not be lowered in the Corona crisis.
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