The Bar­ba­dos Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (BRA) has con­firmed that it is “ac­tive­ly in­ves­ti­ga­tion” an in­ci­dent of a da­ta beach lead­ing to in­for­ma­tion of peo­ple be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed on the in­ter­net and so­cial me­dia.

“The se­cu­ri­ty and pri­va­cy of our stake­hold­ers is of ut­most im­por­tance to us. The con­fi­dence and trust that in­di­vid­u­als and busi­ness­es have in the Au­thor­i­ty are the cor­ner­stones of our sys­tems,” the BRA said in a state­ment.

“We are cur­rent­ly work­ing with our part­ners and law en­force­ment to con­duct a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion to de­ter­mine the na­ture and scope of the re­port­ed in­ci­dent,” it said.

It added: “As the in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues we have to be mind­ful not to share in­for­ma­tion about the spe­cif­ic na­ture of the in­ci­dent, or of the se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures tak­en to ad­dress them, so as not to jeop­ar­dize the work of the in­ves­ti­ga­tors.”

The BRA said that the Da­ta Com­mis­sion­er has been in­formed of the da­ta breach in­ci­dent and will con­tin­ue to be up­dat­ed, not­ing that it un­der­stands that re­strict­ing ac­cess to the ve­hi­cle reg­is­tra­tion por­tal is dis­rup­tive to Bar­ba­di­ans, “and we re­gret the in­con­ve­nience that these nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions have caused for the pub­lic.”

“The Au­thor­i­ty ad­vis­es the pub­lic to re­main vig­i­lant and mon­i­tor their per­son­al ac­count ac­tiv­i­ty and be on the alert for any un­usu­al ac­tiv­i­ty or re­quests seem­ing to come from the Bar­ba­dos Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty. If per­sons rec­og­nize any such ac­tiv­i­ty, they should re­port such in­stances to our Da­ta Pri­va­cy Of­fi­cer,” the BRA added. —BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos (CMC)