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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in November 2023 – 519,111,354 Records Breached

IT Governance

519,111,354 records known to be breached. For example, UK service provider CTS suffered a cyber incident this month, which affected around 80 of its clients too (UK law firms). This is part of the reason this category is lower than last month (24% vs 32%). This blog provides analysis of the data we’ve collected.

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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in March 2024 – 299,368,075 Records Breached

IT Governance

299,368,075 records known to be breached. This month saw fewer records breached than in February (a 58% drop), but a staggering 388% rise in incidents. To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events. Where ‘up to’, etc.

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China Releases Draft Regulations on Network Data Security Management

Hunton Privacy

In this blog post, we discuss several of the key areas addressed by the Draft Regulations. The exterritorial scope under the Draft Regulations is much broader than that under the Three Laws. comply with any conditions under other Chinese law and regulation. Data Breach. Scope of Jurisdiction.

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Connecticut Strengthens Data Breach Notification Requirements and the Uniform Law Commission Approves and Recommends Comprehensive and Uniform State Privacy Legislation

Data Matters

In recent weeks, Connecticut passed An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches (“The Act”), and the Uniform Law Commission approved and recommended the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (“UPDPA”). Connecticut: An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches. Uniform Personal Data Protection Act.

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakout of how Google, Facebook, Instagram enable third-party snooping

The Last Watchdog

Among the app categories, shopping, business, and food & drink were found to be sharing the most user data. So it’s best to think twice before downloading an app from one of these categories, especially if it’s free and/or popular. Greediest data harvesters. Social media and business apps collect the most data.

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What Is Data Minimisation? Definition & Examples

IT Governance

Its principles are at the heart of effective data protection practices, and are intended to prevent privacy breaches and minimise the damage when security incidents occur. You can use your documented lawful basis for processing as a guideline here. It covers the key requirements of data protection laws in relation to marketing.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in July 2022 – 99.2 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list below, broken into categories. Data breaches. They’ll review the breach, mitigate the damage and ensure that you are up and running again as soon as possible. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news….