Justice Ministry data error may have exposed details of up to two million people

A test version of the Czech Justice Ministry’s new commercial register accidentally made sensitive personal data accessible to the public. According to Czech Radio’s iROZHLAS.cz, this included people’s birth numbers, a personal identifier roughly equivalent to a US Social Security number. Another programming error allowed access to documents not intended for publication. The ministry took the test system offline after being alerted and notified the cybersecurity and data protection authorities. The scale of the incident is still under investigation, but potentially nearly two million people could have been affected.