IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. We’ve also included more details on the top 3 biggest breaches of the week. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged. Breached records: 95,592,696.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

Risk 147

Risk Financial Services Insurance Cybersecurity 147

Data Protection Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Earlier this month, Delaware revamped its data breach notification law, with changes to go into effect April 14, 2018. Most notably, the new law requires any entity that has suffered a data breach that includes social security numbers to provide free credit monitoring services to affected residents for one year.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Insurance Encryption Passwords 40

Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

An analysis of the bill prepared by the California Assembly before the vote also indicated that AB 375 was intended to address controversies concerning third-party sale of personal information acquired from social media without data subjects’ authorization. Specific categories defined as personal information include. geolocation data.

GDPR 79

GDPR Privacy Sales Data breaches 79

Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

An analysis of the bill prepared by the California Assembly before the vote also indicated that AB 375 was intended to address controversies concerning third-party sale of personal information acquired from social media without data subjects’ authorization. Specific categories defined as personal information include. geolocation data.

GDPR 60

GDPR Privacy Sales Data breaches 60

Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

DETAILED ANALYSIS ON VERIFICATION, CHILDREN’S PRIVACY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION. Critically, while some of the regulation’s provisions are required, many of the specific procedures are crafted with safe harbor language, advising on what a business “may” do to verify certain categories of consumers. Need for Security Measures.

Privacy 60

Privacy Sales Authentication Passwords 60

Data Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Detailed Analysis On Consumer Notice. As contemplated by the CCPA, under the regulations, businesses must list the categories of personal information they have collected in the previous 12 months and for each category, the business or commercial purpose for which it was collected. a link to the business’s privacy policy.

Privacy 60

Privacy Sales Paper Compliance 60