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Good, only Pro-Beijing politicians should be allowed as chief executive of Hong Kong since it will ensure stability and prosperity for the city.
Yellow Umbrella George Soros NED CIA ==> how racist is this?thats a racist comment.
Well China and Vietnam have a long history so there's plenty of intermarriage.Her maiden name is Cheng Yuet-ngor (Trịnh Nguyệt Nga), a very Vietnamese name. As first, I thought she was a Vietnamese, when I heard about the news on VTV.
QUITE TRUE! Even the sacrosanct leader of the New Vietnam, Hồ Chí Minh, got married to a Chinese woman, Zeng Xueming (曾雪明), known in Vietnamese as Tăng Tuyết Minh in 1926.Well China and Vietnam have a long history so there's plenty of intermarriage.
Laptops containing 3.7 million Hong Kong voters’ data stolen after chief executive election
Devices contained ID card numbers, addresses and mobile numbers
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 28 March, 2017, 12:30am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 28 March, 2017, 1:42am
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Hong Kong’s data privacy pioneer lowers his guard
5 Nov 2016
In what could be one of Hong Kong’s most significant data breaches ever, the personal information of the city’s 3.7 million voters was possibly compromised after the Registration and Electoral Office reported two laptop computers went missing at its backup venue for the chief executive election.
The devices also stored the names of the 1,200 electors on the Election Committee who selected Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor as Hong Kong’s new chief executive on Sunday. Kong chief executive election, with 777 votes
The two computers were stolen from a room at the AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau, which the office described as the election’s “fallback venue”.
The leadership election was held on Sunday at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
While the committee members’ full names are publicly available information, the personal data of Hong Kong’s voters could include their ID card numbers, addresses and mobile phone numbers.
The office said the computers had been put in a locked room. It reported the case to police.
The case involves a huge amount of personal data. The office is going to launch a probe
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In a statement, the office said there had so far been no information to indicate that the relevant data had been “leaked”. It also stressed the data had been encrypted.
Police said they received a report about the stolen computers around 4.40pm Monday. The case was being treated as theft and no arrests had been made. New Territories South regional crime unit was investigating.
A spokesman for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it had received “verbal notification” of the case from the electoral office earlier Monday.
“They stressed that the data had been encrypted,” he said. “The case involves a huge amount of personal data. The office is going to launch a probe.”
The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau said it had received a report from the electoral office that the computers were found to have been stolen around Monday afternoon.
A spokesman for the AsiaWorld Expo said it had no comment.
Election Committee member Fung Wai-wah said he was shocked to learn what had happened. “We had not been told there was a backup centre for the chief executive election,” he said.
Another committee member, lawmaker Charles Mok, said he found it “puzzling” that general voters’ data had been stored alongside that of committee members. “Perhaps they didn’t put the voters’ data in a proper place after last year’s legislative elections and then the devices were used for the chief executive election,” he added.
Hong Kong’s data privacy pioneer lowers his guard
Last September, a computer belonging to the University of Hong Kong’s department of medicine kept at Queen Mary Hospital was stolen. It contained the personal details of some 3,675 patients.
In reply to a lawmaker enquiry last June, the bureau said during the period from June 2013 to May 2016, the privacy commissioner’s office received a total of 253 notifications of data breach incidents.
That personal data mainly included names, personal identification numbers and contact information.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ining-37-million-hong-kong-voters-data-stolen
It looks like an inside job. Also I don't think there has anything to do with those foreign spy agencies, since they have enough resources to steal those information without anyone notice. Not to mentions, this incident looks very ammature and those data at best only provide the home address of those 1200 Election Committee and their ID numbers, nothing else.What a blatant show of incompetency!
Do they all forgot that the HKSAR is one of the largest and the most active operating dens in Asia for those foreign spy agencies? many related heads should fall from their seats and jails should be called their new home.
It looks like an inside job. Also I don't think there has anything to do with those foreign spy agencies, since they have enough resources to steal those information without anyone notice. Not to mentions, this incident looks very ammature and those data at best only provide the home address of those 1200 Election Committee and their ID numbers, nothing else.
I know, our news talk about that day and night. Our councillors had asked the same question, the only answer they offered that is they put all data together. Yeah, that is stupid and lazy. My previous post had been edited by moderator, I tend to believe this was done by the yellow camp due to how unprofessional of this action. Also the latest news reveals that few government employees have been asked for the investigation due to the CCTV records. However, still very little information have been revealed to the general public.Read the title please which said the data of 3.7 voters, not just 1,200 Election Committee members
So why to bring the data of all voters there when the election did not concern this lot of people?
Through the address as revealed in the data, they can locate the online addresses of all the people concern and then tap into their political propensities
Good, only Pro-Beijing politicians should be allowed as chief executive of Hong Kong since it will ensure stability and prosperity for the city.
John Tsang looked like a hidden anti-Beijing candidate to me since most of the supports he had were anti-Beijing and foreign based (such as foreign news like to describe him as a saviour to HK people). Not to mentions, he entered the election even Beijing asked him not to, and his policies had shifted to more pan-democrats favoured. And Woo Kwok-hing is a populists, and nothing more. So Carrie was the only choice that CCP left.ALL of the candidates for HK Chief Executive were Pro-Beijing. She just happens to be more Pro-Beijing than the others.
I don't think any candidate for HK Chief Executive is stupid enough to be anti-Beijing.
John Tsang looked like a hidden anti-Beijing candidate to me since most of the supports he had were anti-Beijing and foreign based (such as foreign news like to describe him as a saviour to HK people). Not to mentions, he entered the election even Beijing asked him not to, and his policies had shifted to more pan-democrats favoured. And Woo Kwok-hing is a populists, and nothing more. So Carrie was the only choice that CCP left.