IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2024

bank account number and/or credit card details), health insurance information, medical records and information about medical history and/or associated conditions, and/or unique identifiers to associate individuals with City of Hope (e.g., medical record number).”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Key dates 31 March 2024 – PCI DSS v4.0 GB Signature Performance, Inc. transitioning deadline Version 3.2.1 of the Standard.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We narrowed down our many Legalweek 2024 learnings to six key takeaways. Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We narrowed down our many Legalweek 2024 learnings to six key takeaways. Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc.

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Data Matters

JUNE 23, 2022

Kentucky and Maryland recently continued the trend of state insurance departments adopting some version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Insurance Data Security Model Law. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed House Bill 474 into law, and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed SB 207.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. The DOJ today unsealed indictments against two Russian men alleged to be active members of LockBit. Ivan Gennadievich Kondratyev , a.k.a.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The NYDFS, which regulates financial institutions including insurance companies, mortgage brokers and banks, adopted the original Cybersecurity Regulation in 2017. Regulated entities generally have until April 29, 2024 to comply with the amended Regulation. The amended Cybersecurity Regulation will take effect in phases.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It allows hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more, reads the official website. This includes substantial costs for insurers, reaching an estimated $542 million annually, to repair or replace stolen vehicles. “Auto theft is a problem the government can’t tackle alone.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

“If you purchase the entire database, I will give you access to it.” “There is a lot of information, I am ready to sell the entire database, with access to the database, and in parts,” Rescator told Mazafaka members. In January 2024, authorities in Australia, the United States and the U.K. ” On Oct.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

On December 13, 2023, VF Corp detected unauthorized access to a portion of its infrastructure. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024. million customers.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 21, 2024, the U.S. Finally, the investigation indicated that GRBH violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule by failing to meet the requirement not to use or disclose PHI except as permitted by the Rule.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If enacted, the Act’s provisions would become effective in multiple steps between 2024 and 2028. However, the Act would not extend to entities covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as well as entities covered by the California Insurance Code.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Optum Solutions is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, a leading health insurance company in the United States. “On February 21, 2024, UnitedHealth Group (the “Company”) identified a suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor had gained access to some of the Change Healthcare information technology systems. .

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? In 2024, we will see more targeted, sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks, including VIP impersonation, vendor email compromise (VEC), and autonomous agents used for malicious purposes. The comments we received were uniformly insightful and helpful.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 4, 2024

Does the national defense bill (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, signed on December 22, 2023) require the Department of Defense to develop a “bug bounty” program for certain large artificial intelligence models being integrated into the missions and operations of the Department of Defense? The Ingalls Mem.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The US agencies released a report containing IOCs and TTPs associated with the ALPHV Blackcat RaaS operation identified through law enforcement investigations conducted as recently as February 2024. This additional reward aims to target affiliated and initial access brokers involved and that facilitated the attacks of the group.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2024

Key recommendations for Financial Services to improve cybersecurity and resilience in multi-clouds madhav Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:46 The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will apply to the EU financial sector from 17 January 2025. DORA: 1 year to go! What is the scope of DORA?

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 20, 2023

The DPDPA also contains a number of exemptions, including exceptions for financial institutions, affiliates and data subject to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, covered entities and business associates under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and nonprofit organizations.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 12, 2023

The OCPA provides an exemption to personal data subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and a number of other federal laws. If signed the OCPA would take effect July 1, 2024; however, amendments made to certain provisions of the OCPA would go in effect January 1, 2026.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

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Armstrong Archives

APRIL 1, 2022

According to a recent IDC report , digital transformation investments are projected to account for over half of all information and communications technology investments by 2024, and document digitization likely has a key role to play in that transformation. Utilizing a Third-Party Solution insures consistency across your document library.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 27, 2023

These bills contain provisions similar to Washington’s My Health My Data Act and expand on protections in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and other privacy laws. 370 would provide consumers with access, opt-out and deletion rights with respect to their consumer health data. Nevada S.B. Nevada’s S.B.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 RaaS usage is expected to increase by 25% in 2024. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2018 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in San Francisco, California, from November 15 to 18, 2018. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data. systemic risk of insurers with other parts of the financial system, notably the banking.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

GhostR says it obtained the records from a Singapore-based company with access to the database. Mobile Guardian, which is based in the UK, said that its investigations detected unauthorised access to its systems via an administrative account on its management portal. Account records from the United States were also accessed.

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Data Matters

JUNE 22, 2022

Potentially stronger trade secret protections – The law expressly allows controllers to deny requests for access or copies of personal data if doing so reveals a trade secret. financial or lending services, housing, education enrollment or opportunity, employment, insurance, access to “essential goods and services”).

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Nearly all respondents reported promising early results from gen AI experiments and planned to increase their spending in 2024 to support production workloads. 46% of survey respondents in 2024 showed a preference for open source models. Audio (56%) : Gen AI call centers with realistic audio assist customers and employees.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

GB dataset on a hacking forum, claiming to still have access to the breached system. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight loanDepot rep orts an extra 324,071 victims In January, the mortgage lender loanDepot announced in an SEC filing that an unauthorised third party had gained access to the sensitive personal information of about 16.6 Key date 31 March 2024 – PCI DSS v4.0

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Key dates 7 January 2024 – EU Cybersecurity Regulation enters into force The EU’s Cybersecurity Regulation , which sets out measures for a high common level of cyber security at EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, entered into force on 7 January. Source (New) Real estate USA Yes 10 GB Unitex Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 9.5

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Microsoft gives all businesses access to AI-powered Office features When Microsoft launched Copilot for Office 365 in November 2023, it required enterprise customers to have at least 300 users. Subscribe now The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Info Source

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“There are many highly variable processes that are dependent on how quickly stakeholders can access data-driven insights to make informed decisions,” commented Doug Henschen, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. “We billion by 2024, and recognized ABBYY as a Leader in the category.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,588,849 Keenan & Associates Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 1,509,616 AGC Group Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes 1.5 NAIRR will “provide access to advanced computing, datasets, models, software, training and user support to U.S.-based Source (New) Non-profit USA Yes 25,908.62

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 15, 2024

Financial Supervision in a Digital World madhav Tue, 01/16/2024 - 05:44 If you’ve been working in the finance sector over the past few years, you will have noticed some big changes in the world of financial supervision. This has consequences for the onboarding of supervised institutions and the delegation of access rights within these firms.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

TB exfiltrated Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Xfinity) Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Telecoms USA Yes 35,879,455 Tecnoquadri Srl Source (New) Manufacturing Italy Yes 33,000,000 Asia Insurance Co.

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