Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:46.

Personal data 71

Personal data Data breaches Government Authentication 71

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

Data Subject Access Requests – no unqualified right to documents. Due to the dates on which the DSARs had been made, the relevant legislation was in fact the Data Protection Act 1998 ( “DPA 98” ).

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Access GDPR Personal data Retail 122

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JULY 26, 2021

On July 5, 2021, the Italian supervisory authority (“ Garante ”) published an injunction against a company operating a food delivery app (“ Company ”) over the processing of riders’ personal data with respect to the use of algorithms for the management of the orders. Retention period. Security measures in place. The need for a DPIA.

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Personal data GDPR e-Delivery Communications 52

IT Governance

JUNE 25, 2018

With all the noise, however, it’s possible that the key facts haven’t been heard clearly, especially by those in smaller businesses where there isn’t always a defined person to take the lead for IT. There are many opportunities within retail, leisure and hospitality for tailored offers and promotions to improve business.

Retail 71

Retail GDPR IT Compliance 71

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Not only does it affect the way organisations process personal data, but also extends data subjects rights in terms of how their data is processed. One of the rights amended by the GDPR is the right of access. What is a data subject access request (DSAR)? The impact of DSARs on Scottish businesses.

Access 91

Access GDPR Personal data Retail 91

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data.

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 88

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

On December 13, 2023, VF Corp detected unauthorized access to a portion of its infrastructure. “Based on VF’s preliminary analysis from its ongoing investigation, VF currently estimates that the threat actor stole personal data of approximately 35.5 million individual consumers.”

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Passwords Retail Insurance 113

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer.

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Retail Data breaches Passwords Access 43

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

A sales thread tied to the allegedly stolen T-Mobile customer data. “We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved,” T-Mobile wrote.

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Data breaches Access Retail Sales 316

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2018

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. the encryption keys for historical transactions were not stored safely. the encryption keys for historical transactions were not stored safely.

Retail 40

Retail Personal data Security GDPR 40

Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

” The message above was sent to a customer of RaceTrac Petroleum , an Atlanta company that operates more than 650 retail gasoline convenience stores in 12 southeastern states. “Perhaps you bought something there and left your personal data. . “Call or write to this store and ask to protect your privacy!!!!”

Ransomware 297

Ransomware Personal data Retail Privacy 297

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

The threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw ( CVE-2023-34362 ,) in MOVEit file transfer and access the infrastructure of the regulator. A spokesperson for Ofcom told The Record that the ransomware group had access confidential information which the regulator held on companies it regulates. “A

Communications 68

Communications Data breaches Ransomware Personal data 68

Collibra

APRIL 11, 2023

Retail is a dynamic and competitive market. In addition to the traditional brick-and mortar-stores, the retail business today includes online and mobile stores. Every process at every stage of these stores relies on data. The right kind of data can drive great innovations in retail. What if they do not match?

Retail 73

Retail Sales Compliance Marketing 73

IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The incident occurred in late November, with the sports retail giant gearing up for Black Friday and the start of the World Cup. Intersport was initially confident that the attackers didn’t access customer data, but a Tech Monitor report claims that the Hive ransomware gang posted the information online weeks after the attack.

Ransomware 122

Ransomware Personal data Retail Risk 122

Data Protection Report

JUNE 21, 2023

The new law has exclusions for Gramm-Leach-Bliley-covered financial institutions, HIPAA-covered covered entities and business associates, non-profits, institutes of higher education, and electric utilities, power generation companies, and retail electric providers. A similar requirement applies with respect to the sale of biometric data.

Privacy 84

Privacy Personal data Sales Retail 84

Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Luxottica Group S.p.A. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley.

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Retail Sales Ransomware 89

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, airport security focused on physical access and the perimeter; however, in the years since 9/11, the digital footprint of the vast interconnected systems contains valuable assets that must be protected. Also, on average, airports can process up to seven pieces of personal data for every passenger.

Cybersecurity 87

Cybersecurity Authentication Access Compliance 87

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

Agency for International Development IBM gives school districts grants to harden security against ransomware attacks UK businesses in the South East get access to Police CyberAlarm HSE seeks order to help find who uploaded or downloaded files stolen in cyber attack. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

The vulnerability is a SQL injection vulnerability, it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer’s database. One of Zellis’s customers, the British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain Boots also confirmed to have been impacted by the attack.

Ransomware 76

Ransomware Retail Personal data Authentication 76

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 24, 2021

The retail sector, especially, is a lucrative target for credential stuffing attacks , resulting in billions lost every year. According to both regulations, data subjects, citizens of the EU and the State of California have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, and portability on their personal data.

Authentication 71

Authentication Compliance GDPR Personal data 71

IT Governance

JUNE 13, 2018

Dixons Carphone has suffered a major data breach involving 5.9 million personal data records. At this point, the major consumer electronics retailer said there was no evidence of any fraud. In a second breach, personal customer data in the form of names, addresses and email addresses was accessed.

Retail 65

Retail Data breaches GDPR Compliance 65

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2018

If these could have been used to identify individuals, this would have constituted a personal data breach under the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). When he uploaded his photo to the organisation’s website, he found it was stored in an insecure way, and that he could access any user’s photos.

Retail 65

Retail Data breaches Personal data GDPR 65

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The GDPR puts forth a litany of rules for how organizations in and outside of Europe handle the personal data of EU residents. The details of any organization’s plan to become fully GDPR compliant will vary based on the data the organization collects and what it does with that data.

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GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 84

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

On November 26, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it imposed a fine of €2.25 million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies.

GDPR 91

GDPR Personal data Data collection Marketing 91

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2019

You must tell people when you’re collecting their personal information to give them the opportunity to exercise their data subject rights. These rights enable individuals to access the personal data organisations store on them and to challenge the way their information is used. Control who has access to CCTV.

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GDPR Privacy Retail Personal data 110

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Data breached: 6,009,014 accounts. A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. Reportedly, the vulnerability has now been mitigated.

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Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 20, 2023

When privacy is at stake, SSI puts individuals back in control of their personal data. In a highly decentralized ecosystem, digital identities have emerged as a crucial component of digital sovereignty because they are the only true means of security and access control. They can also revoke that access at any time.

Privacy 71

Privacy Blockchain Customer Experience Access 71

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” continues the data breach notification note.

Passwords 68

Passwords Security Retail Personal data 68

Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

The BBC and British Airways were both impacted by the data breach suffered by the payroll provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. reads the advisory published by the company.

Data breaches 76

Data breaches Retail Cybersecurity Personal data 76

IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2019

Home improvement retailer B&Q has suffered a data breach affecting 70,000 of its… well, not customers, exactly. The database should have only been accessible to certain employees, but security specialists at CtrlBox found the database an ElasticSearch server, left publicly available and without password protection.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Retail 111

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A data processor is the organisation that does the legwork; it processes the information on the controller’s behalf. For example, a marketing executive at a retailer hires a company to conduct a survey on shoppers’ browsing habits. How long to retain the data or whether to make non-routine amendments to the data.

GDPR 107

GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 107

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

WE ALSO WANT TO REMIND ALL COMPANY THAT IF YOU PUT DATA ON INTERNET WHERE DATA IS NOT PROTECT DO NOT BLAME US FOR PENETRATION TESTING SERVICE. By May 31, Rapid7 experts discovered approximately 2,500 instances of MOVEit Transfer publicly accessible on the internet, with a significant portion located in the United States.

Ransomware 89

Ransomware Data breaches Retail Government 89

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Widely-used DeFi protocol bZx loses $55 million in cyber attack (unknown) Evanston Township High School defrauded of $48,570 in hack (1,139) Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles (unknown) Costco discloses data breach after finding card skimmer at one of its stores (unknown). Financial information.

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 141

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2019

million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. Early 2014, the high-end retailer confirmed a data breach, the incident happened a few weeks after the clamorous data breach at US giant retailer Target. billion in the Q4 2013.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Retail Sales Personal data 59

IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Although the GDPR prescribes a penalty regime of fines up to the greater of 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million (about £17 million), the scale of these first fines – and the extent to which the ICO clearly intends to crack down on organisations that fail to properly secure the personal data they process – took most organisations by surprise.

Data breaches 78

Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 78

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

On 28 July 2020, the French Supervisory Authority (the “CNIL”) sanctioned the online shoes retail company, SPARTOO SAS, by a €250,000 fine and an injunction to comply with GDPR within 3 months under penalty for various non-compliances with the GDPR of the personal data processing related to clients, prospects and employees [1].

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GDPR Personal data Compliance Passwords 93

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Thailand’s Department of Older Persons breached, exposing almost 20 millio n personal data records The Department of Older Persons, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, suffered a data breach in which 19,718,687 rows or personal data was exposed.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52