Adecco Says Data of Belgian Staff Affected by Leak

  • Belgian privacy regulator says it was notified by Adecco
  • Biometric data of some 2,000 Adecco Belgium staff affected
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The Adecco Group told Belgium’s privacy regulator that the breach of a security platform run by South Korea’s Suprema ID Inc. compromised the biometric data of some 2,000 employees of its Belgian unit.

The breach of Suprema’s BioStar 2 system affected data including fingerprints details of Adecco employees, the country’s data protection authority said in a statement Wednesday.