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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. Gab's approach.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. All rights reserved. Agency (Feb. 14,028, 86 Fed. 26,633 (May 12, 2021).

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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Singapore proposes changes to cybersecurity and data protection regimes

Data Protection Report

In a bid to keep pace with advancements in the technological landscape, the Singapore Government has in recent months embarked on public consultations on its draft Cybersecurity Bill (the Cyber Bill) and its proposed amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) to update the country’s data protection regime.