NZTA admits data breach

The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has admitted to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open.The key is a unique code used to access data from Google’s application programming interface, in this case through

2018 and in early 2019. It was used to build Traffic Watcher, an online tool for transport operations centres, maintenance contractors and the police. Traffic Watcher was accessed

600 times in March and July this year but almost 3000 times in May.