The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has acknowledged that a technological glitch left what was supposed to be a highly secure data key completely exposed.
The transportation agency acknowledged that the Traffic Watcher pre-production setup erroneously left the Google API accessible.
NZTA has not stated when it eventually secured the key, if the May rise was caused by the vulnerable key, or released earlier site usage statistics.
It has, however, acknowledged to RNZ that it had communications with Google regarding a breach or potential breach of data storage.
Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115645154/data-breach-after-lax-nzta-security
"id": "WAK16713423",
"linkid": "new-zealand-transport-agency",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "09/2019",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"