IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Hacker sold personal info of Unacadamy students online (11 million). Entertainment law firm GSM&S hacked, exposing celebrities’ personal info (unknown). US Marshals Service says personal data of current and former prisoners was stolen (387,000). Arbonne MLM data breach exposes users’ passwords (3,527).

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the Government's core objectives throughout the Brexit negotiations has been to respect data protection rights, slash Brussels' red tape and allow the United Kingdom to be a competitive safe haven for businesses all over the world. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations.

Privacy 156

Privacy GDPR Personal data Computer and Electronics 156

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. Private matters were discoverable by default, even where the privacy interests were significant and the relevance only marginal.

Privacy 97

Privacy e-Discovery Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 97

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Given the extraordinary scale of the data breach, it’s been dubbed the ‘MOAB’ (mother of all breaches). Data breached: 2 PB. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores. Video-sharing app TikTok agreed to a record $5.7

Data breaches 69

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 24, 2019

The French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (CNIL) has finally decided to replace its recommendations of 2013 which were no more compliant with the GDPR, by new guidelines. The adoption of the new guidelines is part of the action plan that the CNIL has implemented for 2019-2020 to provide clearer guidance to the marketing community.

GDPR 40

GDPR Computer and Electronics Marketing Communications 40