>Philip Farrugia, the C-Planet managing director at the centre of a personal data leak case, has claimed that he received personal information on everyone in Malta’s electoral register from Ivan Buttigieg, who was CEO of the General Workers Union subsidiary and a Labour Party executive member.
>The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, which instituted the case with Repubblika, revealed that Farrugia shared the detail during his testimony.
>Buttigieg was a Labour Party executive committee and actually contested in the 2013 general election, following decades of strong links to the party.
>Farrugia said that Untours Ltd, a GWU subsidiary, had hired him to design management software and that that is the reason Buttigieg had given C-Planet the database. He also acknowledged the IDPC’s finding that the database was used for other C-Planet clients but said that this happened in only one instance.
>The IDPC has fined C-Planet €65,000 for failing to prevent the data leak. The company has appealed the decision. Both the appeal and the court case are ongoing.
>Back in March 2020, the personal details of over 300,000 Maltese voters were exposed as part of a massive data breach from a local IT company, C-Planet Ltd (IT Solutions), owned by Philip Farrugia, a former production director at One Productions, the media wing of the Labour Party.
>The data leak was said to have originated from the Labour Party and had involved a list of over 330,000 voters along with their details such as ID card numbers and voting preferences.
I would rather question how they obtained the data in the first place. Besides name and address of course, which are publicly available.
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>Philip Farrugia, the C-Planet managing director at the centre of a personal data leak case, has claimed that he received personal information on everyone in Malta’s electoral register from Ivan Buttigieg, who was CEO of the General Workers Union subsidiary and a Labour Party executive member.
>The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, which instituted the case with Repubblika, revealed that Farrugia shared the detail during his testimony.
>Buttigieg was a Labour Party executive committee and actually contested in the 2013 general election, following decades of strong links to the party.
>Farrugia said that Untours Ltd, a GWU subsidiary, had hired him to design management software and that that is the reason Buttigieg had given C-Planet the database. He also acknowledged the IDPC’s finding that the database was used for other C-Planet clients but said that this happened in only one instance.
>The IDPC has fined C-Planet €65,000 for failing to prevent the data leak. The company has appealed the decision. Both the appeal and the court case are ongoing.
>Back in March 2020, the personal details of over 300,000 Maltese voters were exposed as part of a massive data breach from a local IT company, C-Planet Ltd (IT Solutions), owned by Philip Farrugia, a former production director at One Productions, the media wing of the Labour Party.
>The data leak was said to have originated from the Labour Party and had involved a list of over 330,000 voters along with their details such as ID card numbers and voting preferences.
I would rather question how they obtained the data in the first place. Besides name and address of course, which are publicly available.