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EU Parliament and Council of the EU Reach Agreement on Data Governance Act

Hunton Privacy

The EU Data Governance Act is intended to foster the availability of data by increasing trust in data intermediaries and strengthening data sharing across the EU and between sectors. It is part of the European Strategy for Data , which is aimed at putting the EU at the forefront of our increasingly data-driven society.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Cyber attack on Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of staff and students (16,000). Inventory Hive website vulnerability exposes users’ personal data (100,000+). India’s BHIM payment app exposed personal data on database (7 million). Portal for Philippines’ Far Eastern University hacked (1,000).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

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. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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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.

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EU data governance regulation – a wave of digital, regulatory and antitrust reform begins – Part 1

Data Protection Report

The DGR does not create a right to re-use such data, but provides for a set of harmonized basic conditions under which the re-use of such data may be allowed. The DGR does not create a right to re-use such data, but provides for a set of harmonized basic conditions under which the re-use of such data may be allowed.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

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. Data breached: 2,632,275 people’s data. 204 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.