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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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The Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions: A Critique of the EEOC Guidance

Hunton Privacy

Not deterred, on June 11, 2013, the EEOC continued to pursue this theory by filing cases in the District of South Carolina against BMW Manufacturing, and in the Northern District of Illinois against retailer Dollar General.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

million accounts compromised in Le Slip Français data breach The French underwear manufacturer Le Slip Français has suffered a data breach. GhostR says it obtained the records from a Singapore-based company with access to the database. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de Source (New) Retail Germany Yes 334,000 Yakima Valley Radiology, PC Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 235,249 Consorzio Innovation Source (New) Professional services Italy Yes 225 GB Northeast Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 177,276 Strike.me

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

TB Allium UPI, UAB, Apotheka, Apotheka Beauty and PetCity Source (New) Manufacturing Estonia Yes 1,190,000 Aero Dynamic Machining, Inc. TB Allium UPI, UAB, Apotheka, Apotheka Beauty and PetCity Source (New) Manufacturing Estonia Yes 1,190,000 Aero Dynamic Machining, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

TB LDLC Source (New) Retail France Yes 1,500,000 APROA Source (New) Professional services Argentina Yes 1,197,562 Petrus Resources Ltd. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Vamosi: For example, let's say you're a large retail organization with a number of physical locations. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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