A few days ago, Typeform, a company which specializes in online survey forms, reported <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/typeform_breach/> that someone had gained unauthorized access to one of its backups. This turned out to impact a remarkable variety of institutions using its services <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/03/hotel_chain_and_uk_political_party_caught_out_by_typeform_breach/> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/typeform_breach_continued/>, though the listed ones all seem to be in the UK and Australia. Now, I read today in the Hamilton Press (issue of 11th July, i.e. today), on page 6, that the affected customers include the Hamilton City Council, Waikato District Council, and Waipā District Council. “About 2800 Waikato people” may have used the Typeform service to express views to these local bodies. Information that could have been leaked was “names, email addresses, and in some cases, phone numbers”. Hamilton City used the service to run 10 surveys between November 2014 and February 2018, and a total of 1941 people “may have been affected”; it has contacted them about the breach, and it doesn’t use Typeform any more. Waipā District has similarly contacted 125 participants in its surveys. (No mention of what action Waikato District is taking...)