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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

She shared with me a copy of the lease, which included a fraudulent ID and even a vehicle insurance card for a Land Cruiser we got rid of like 15 years ago. “It’s still not good by any means, but it’s definitely better for consumers than it is for businesses. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS. .”

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Florida Amends Breach Notification Law to Cover Health Data, Tighten Notice Deadline and Require State Regulator Notification

Hunton Privacy

In addition, the definition of “personal information” now includes a “username or e-mail address, in combination with a password or security question and answer that would permit access to an online account.”. steps that have been taken to rectify the breach.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This include that data controllers must not use personal means of communications, including postal and electronic addresses, of the data subject in order to sent promotional or awareness materials without first obtaining the consent of the data subject, and providing the data subject with a mechanism to opt out. Credit data access.

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Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

Krebs on Security

Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards. Everest National Insurance Company did not respond to requests for comment. million total. THE LAWSUIT.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised.

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#ModernDataMasters: Henrik Liliendahl, Chairman & CTO, Product Data Lake

Reltio

I got good grades in mathematics at school but it was an evening class in secondary school that I took in what was then called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) that got me started. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard. Data models – look at the real world.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 110 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. We also found 7 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident.