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More Companies Are Digitizing Records Than Ever Before

Armstrong Archives

Utilizing a Third-Party Solution insures consistency across your document library. Of course, you might still need to keep physical records. For example, archiving historical documents would likely require physical storage, while an insurance company might benefit more from eliminating paper storage entirely.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

million people was compromised, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, medical information, health insurance information, and billing and claims information. Information relating to nearly 4.5 Data breached: 4,452,782 records. TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

These floors contain offices, a record center, a library and researcher area, a processing area, and the archives. On the fifth floor, part of the ceiling in the library had collapsed on top of archives and records that sat on top of the research table away from the windows. The insurance coordinator proposed stabilizing in place.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

As Ananth explained, the city did two things right: they had cyber insurance and they didn’t pay the ransom. If they can do that by stealing personally identifiable information or any of the other valuable things from a government institution, whether it’s a library or a court system, they’ll do just that.”. Election threat.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

But, of course, the nature of ransomware attacks makes it hard for organisations to determine how many records were affected. For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks.