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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in January 2020 – 1.5 billion records breached

IT Governance

Data leak exposes the owners of thousands of anonymous offshore companies (unknown). Fresh Film Productions leaks personal data of Dove ‘real people’ ad participants (1,500). Consultancy firms leak data on workers (+2,000). UK betting firms given vast access to children’s personal data (28 million).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 461 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. Such data security practices shall be appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at issue.”.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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Mastering healthcare data governance with data lineage

IBM Big Data Hub

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

Who will the data be shared with: According to the Notice, data collected may be shared with a number of third parties including, for example, “research organisations, including universities, charities, clinical research organisations that run clinical trials and pharmaceutical companies”.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.