IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

– JDSupra (unknown) VNS Health Confirms Data Breach at TMG Health Resulted in Data of 103,775 Consumers Being Leaked | Console and Associates, P.C. – JDSupra (unknown) Hillsborough County Confirms MOVEit Data Breach Leaks Information of 70k+ | Console and Associates, P.C.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ ” reads a statement from Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2020

A joint operation conducted by European police arrested hundreds of criminals after that agents infiltrated into EncroChat encrypted chat network. The police infiltrated into a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was used by criminals involved in drug dealing, money laundering, extortions, and even murders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

Data was collected by the UK Metropolitan police, small local businesses and governments globally. Currently, the BioStar 2 is used by more than 6,000 organizations, including businesses, governments, financial organizations and the UK Metropolitan Police. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In other news… Florida Orthopaedic Institute settles lawsuit after 2020 ransomware incident Brazilian police launch investigation targeting Lapsus$ group South Korea to ban 16 unregistered overseas crypto exchanges. announces security breach (unknown) The Country Club at Woodfield, Inc. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Metropolitan Associates reports leaked social security numbers (unknown). Hacker breaks into Zwijndrecht police server (unknown). Suffolk police publish sensitive info of sexual assault victims online in data protection failure (unknown). GATE Petroleum Company announces cyber attack (unknown). Malicious insiders.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK-based organisations listed in bold. billion records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. In total, we detected 2,323,326,953 breached records. Ransomware. Data breaches. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2021 – 2.3

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has supported Carding Action 2020 – a cross-border operation led by Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) with the support from law enforcement agencies including The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit of the London Metropolitan and the City of London Police.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

As always, you can find the full list of incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news….

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI ICO launches consultation on generative AI and data protection The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a consultation series on the application of data protection law to generative AI models, particularly in relation to the UK GDPR and Part 2 of the DPA 2018.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1 TB GokuMarket (ByteX) Source (New) Crypto Canada Unknown >1,000,000 DonorView Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Software USA Unknown 948,029 CTS, Talbots Law and Fenwick Elliott LLP Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) IT services and legal UK Yes 945 GB Shorts Chartered Accountants Source (New) Finance UK Yes 597.67

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rose Dominican Hospital Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 2,652 DentalXChange Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Software USA Yes 2,574 Walker County, Texas Source (New) Public USA Yes 2,420 Cambridge Labour Party Source (New) Public UK Yes 1,942 Hi-Crush Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Energy USA Yes 1,902 Villager Construction, Inc.

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

You can find our full list of incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2021 – 21 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2019

The information was collected for the security tool BioStar 2, which is used by the likes of the Metropolitan Police, defence contractors and banks to control access to specific parts of secure facilities. Their report named Phoenix Medical as a UK-based organisation affected by the leak. Biometric data must be kept secure.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 30, 2010

In a statement released on July 29, 2010, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has found that the information collected by Google from unsecured WiFi networks during the Street View photography capture exercise “does not include meaningful personal details that could be linked to an identifiable person.”

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Big Brother Watch’s FoI request shows force rebuked by watchdog for recording 2019 school strike action in London Police unlawfully spied on children as young as 10 taking part in a climate strike protest in London, documents have shown.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 15, 2023

Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing for targeted advertising purposes Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it with Facebook for targeted advertising, the Observer has found.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The company’s BioStar 2 tool is used by thousands of companies worldwide, including the Metropolitan Police. The post 2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. You can, of course, find our full list of December 2019’s data breaches and cyber attacks on this blog in January.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The funding round was led by UK investor Mercia Ventures, which joins Seedcamp, Firstminute Capital, Episode 1, Village Global as well as Finnish VC Lifeline Ventures as investors. A threat alert by the National Cyber Security Centre is also warning of increased state-sponsored attacks against UK critical national infrastructure.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

How list is compiled also to be reviewed amid claims it blights life chances and is discriminatory Hundreds of young people have been removed from a controversial police list of alleged gang members after claims that it is discriminatory and blighted their life chances, the Guardian has learned.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 3, 2022

Mayor’s decision to give police access to more data described as ‘gargantuan increase of surveillance in London’ The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is facing a legal challenge over his decision to allow the Metropolitan police access to more data from a larger number of traffic cameras across the city.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 5, 2022

Force claimed it approached groups before launch of Project Alpha which scours social media sites Youth violence experts have said they had no involvement with a police scheme that collects children’s personal data , despite the Met claiming to have consulted them.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 7, 2019

Force testing app that lets officers run snapshot through ‘watchlist’ to identify suspects South Wales police are to have a facial recognition app installed on their phones to identify suspects without having to take them to a police station. Related: Police trials of facial recognition backed by home secretary Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 26, 2019

Met commissioner calls for better use of data to fight fall in detection rates The Metropolitan police commissioner has hit out at “woefully low” rates for solving crimes, with courts “emptying” despite some offences rising. Related: Facial recognition tech is arsenic in the water of democracy, says Liberty Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Met has apologised after Camden police passed on images to surveillance scheme Images of seven people were passed on by local police for use in a facial recognition system at King’s Cross in London in an agreement that was struck in secret, the details of which were made public for the first time today. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Human rights campaigners say list of suspects discriminates against young black men The Metropolitan police’s list of gang suspects breached data protection laws, potentially causing damage and distress to a disproportionate number of young black men, an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Digga D, real name Rhys Herbert, was jailed last year aged 17 along with other four members of his gang after they were caught with baseball bats and machetes, the police discovered they were planning to attack another gang. The messages were expressing anti-police sentiment and calling for the jailed rapper to be released.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. Metropolitan Police Service in the U.K., Metropolitan Police Service in the U.K., Because with such stupid methods FBI is trying to intimidate me and make me stop working.

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