The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 6, 2018

Information commissioner calls for more transparency over how individuals’ data is used for political ends Facebook and Twitter may be forced to reveal detailed information about how and why users were targeted for political advertising, the information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has suggested.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

SolarWinds supply chain attack also impacted six European Union institutions, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration confirmed. ” states TheRecord that first reported the news. The hack allowed the threat actors to spy on the internal email traffic.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

“Following discussions with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the Board of easyJet announces that it has been the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source.” ” reads a statement from the company. ” continues the company.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

That article prompted Britain’s Electoral Commission and the Information Commissioner’s Office to launch investigations whose remits include Cambridge Analytica’s use of data and its possible links to the Brexit referendum. These investigations are still continuing, as is a wider ICO inquiry into the use of data in politics.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

A ransomware gang has also compromised the email system of the organization to inform employees and journalists about the attack. The news was reported by BleepingComputer who received an email earlier from the account of Andy Heath, the Director of Merseyrail that also speculate. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

” states Yahoo News. ” states Ulrich Kühn, the acting Hamburg commissioner for data protection and freedom of information. Privacy Shield ), finding U.S. surveillance law to be incompatible with EU privacy rights.” Multiple European DPA agencies are investigating how U.S.-based for processing purposes.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Records breached: 79,582 Ontario hospitals update: information relating to 5.6

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” The arrest is the result of Operation Guardian led by AFP which became aware of a number of text messages demanding some Optus customers transfer $2000 to a bank account or face their personal information being used for financial crimes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2020

official told the AP that the hack, which was first detected over the summer, appeared “sophisticated” and that the extent of the damage remains unclear, especially in terms of p ersonal, secret or compromising information that may have been stolen.” ” continues AP News. . ” continues AP News.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. This should make it easier for you to quickly find the information you want.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 8, 2021

His personal information (including his name, posts held in official bodies) were published, and can be easily searched on Google. The data subject, X, was arrested by the police for his participation in the civil unrest movement in Hong Kong in 2014.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2022

Below is the list of Covered Equipment or Services added on March 25, 2022: Information security products, solutions, and services supplied, directly or indirectly, by AO Kaspersky Lab or any of its predecessors, successors, parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates. ” said FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

’s Information Commissioner’s Office, Marriott International was not compliant to the European Union’s data protection regulation GDPR. T he news had a significant impact on the value of the company’s shares that fell 1.5% According to the U.K.’s after the announcement.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, the consultation includes proposals to: remove data protection officers; remove data protection impact assessments; loosen data breach reporting thresholds; remove prior consultation of the Information Commissioner?s The Information Commissioner?s and appears to be why New Zealand?s solely automated?

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Data Matters

JULY 30, 2018

In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted an Insurance Data Security Model Law. The post South Carolina Becomes the First State to Enact the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Regulated firms remain responsible for any data that they outsource and, in line with this, they must exercise appropriate oversight of any outsourcing – firms may want to consider, for example, what would happen if there was an issue, including whether back-up is adequate and if they would receive appropriate information if something did go wrong.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 10, 2015

The TPS’s website provides individuals with an easy way to register their objection to receiving unsolicited direct marketing calls, but no information on how effective it is at stamping out these practices. There’s no information on the volume of complaints it receives, and how these are trending over time. So what does it do?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday. “We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted.” At the time of writing, it is unclear the number of affected customers, whether Amazon had informed the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The news was released by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada after the passage of the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA ). 19 million Canadians are estimated to have been affected by data breaches between late 2018 and 2019, slightly more than half the population of the country. .

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IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2018

With just over two months until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, the Information Commissioner’s Office this week launched an awareness campaign aimed at businesses that employ fewer than 10 people. Cryptocurrency is still very much in the news at the moment.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) quietly. » Related Stories Before Senate Facebook, Twitter Defend Efforts to Stop Fake News Veeam mishandles Own Data, exposes 440M Customer E-mails Report: EU will slap new GDPR Fines on Old Data Breaches.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 78

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Date of breach: 26 October 2023 Breached organisation: Homeland, Inc., to its leak site.

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Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On September 21 st , 2017, Daniel Therrien, Canada’s Federal Privacy Commissioner, tabled his annual report to Canada’s Parliament today. In addition, the Commissioner requests Parliament overhaul Canada’s federal private sector legislation – the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

“eir has reported a data breach of personal details for up to 37,000 customers to the Data Protection Commissioner. The telco company reported the incident to the Data Protection Commissioner and to gardaí, the good news for the customers is that the stolen information has been used by a third party in a targeted attack.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Not to be confused with El Paso County in Texas , El Paso County in Colorado recently finished an overhaul of the system used to manage resolutions, ordinances, and minutes from county commissioner meetings. Local governments should take a minute to read about how citizens are able to access information faster and easier than before.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2017

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) published its final Regulations Implementing FAST Act Section 61003-Critical Electric Infrastructure Security and Amending Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (the “CEII Regulations”).

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

The good news is that La Porte County has a cyber insurance that will cover part of the costs sustained to restore the activity after the attack. At least half of the servers at the county’s infrastructure were infected.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A British lawmaker obliged a visiting tech executive to share the files ahead of an international hearing that parliament is hosting on Tuesday to gather info into disinformation and “fake news.”. the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect users’ personal information. “The U.K.

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Everteam

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Based on the statements released by the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Deutsche Wohnen illegally maintained an extensive database of tenant information, including detailed personal and financial data, despite there being no business requirement to do so.

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GDPR Information governance Government Marketing 52

Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

These relate to information security, fraud prevention, service provision (for example, billing and managing abuse of the service) or for the protection of “vital interests” which follows the same concept used in the GDPR. This provision will be good news for telco companies and companies operating in the adtech space.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2021

Information professionals and the power of literature celebrated in 2021 New Year Honours list. The list featured a number of awards recognising the central role of knowledge, information and data in securing national resilience. The list also celebrated the contribution of the wider library and information community.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2018

In an email sent to those affected, Superdrug said: “On the evening of the 20 th of August, we were contacted by hackers who claimed they have obtained a number of our customer’s online shopping information. Information stolen included: Names. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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Passwords Retail Information Security Data breaches 61

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Asked to provide further information, it tersely commented: “We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted”. The individuals themselves must be informed if there is likely to be a high risk to their rights and freedoms. TalkTalk should and could have done more to safeguard its customer information.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 4, 2010

Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Frank Work, issued a news release regarding the recent Court of Appeal of Alberta decision in Alberta Teachers’ Association v. Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner).

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Privacy Government IT Information Security 40

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Adam Kardash from Heenan Blaikie LLP in Canada reports that Jennifer Stoddart has been nominated for reappointment as Privacy Commissioner of Canada for a three-year term. Stoddart has served as Privacy Commissioner since December 2003. For further information on the nomination, view the Prime Minister of Canada’s news release.

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IT Governance

MAY 25, 2018

Moreover, the ICO – the body that will actually be enforcing the new law – has repeatedly stated that it will not be making early examples of organisations for minor GDPR infringements, nor will it be doling out huge fines willy-nilly. Until next week, when we’ll return to our usual news round-up, good luck. And don’t panic.

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