New Zealand investigates alleged breach.

• Position: DATA SECURITY - Brief article

Freelance journalist Keith Ng announced on his blog on October 15, 2012, that he had accessed thousands of files on the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development's national accounting server. Some of the invoices stored on the server included private information.

The ministry closed down kiosks at the office through which the journalist was able to access the files, then it engaged an independent security expert to investigate the breach.

The journalist accessed four other servers, but he was not able to gain private information from them. The journalist has...