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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. We discuss both events in more detail below. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The crime scene.

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , filed Dec.

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Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest

Security Affairs

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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UK Pensions briefing: Cybersecurity for pension schemes – where are we now?

Data Protection Report

Is your scheme adequately protected in the event of an attempted cyberattack? This briefing looks at the Regulator’s draft General Code and its recent statement in response to a highly publicised pensions data breach and sets out some actions trustees should consider taking to protect their schemes from this increasing risk.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Ruling on Common Law Duty to Protect Electronic Employee Data

Hunton Privacy

The case arose from a data breach in which criminals accessed UPMC’s computer systems and stole the personal and financial information of 62,000 current and former UPMC employees. The trial court dismissed the case, which the intermediate appellate court affirmed. Pennsylvania’s highest court, however, disagreed.

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Data Breach Bills Clear Senate Judiciary Committee

Hunton Privacy

On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. The Data Breach Notification Act of 2011 (the “Feinstein Bill”), is the fifth such bill introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).