KPMG Mexico Could Be Facing Fine of Up to $1.6 Million For Huge Data Leak Blunder

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KPMG Mexico Could Be Facing Fine of Up to $1.6 Million For Huge Data Leak Blunder
April 24, 2019
https://goingconcern.com/kpmg-mexic...up-to-1-6-million-for-huge-data-leak-blunder/

Mexican authorities said KPMG Mexico could be fined as much as 30 million pesos (about $1.57 million) for exposing the confidential payroll data of employees at 41 of its clients, which was housed in an unsecured database that wound up on the Internet.

Cynthia Solís, a partner with IT legal advisory firm Lex Inf, told El Economista that if KPMG is found to have violated federal data protection laws, “I think we are talking about a million-dollar fine, between 20 million and 30 million pesos.”

“At the outset, there is a well-founded presumption that KPMG did not correctly apply the physical, technical and administrative measures to safeguard this data.”
“It is important to re-emphasize that the database that was hosted in the unauthorized environment was installed with default settings, which resulted in it being accessible without a password to anyone on the Internet,” KPMG said in the report.
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