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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: over 300 million records. Data breached: 35 TB. According to Cybernews , one of the data sets contained 13.3 Data breached: 13.3

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Bodybuilding.com forces password reset after a security breach

Security Affairs

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” continues the data breach notification note.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

The GDPR applies to any organization that processes the personal data of European residents, regardless of where that organization is based. A data controller is any organization, group, or person that collects personal data and determines how it is used. million per breach.

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CNIL Fines Two Companies of the Carrefour Group €3.05 Million for GDPR and Cookie Violations

Hunton Privacy

Carrefour France and Carrefour Banque are both affiliates of the French retail group, the Carrefour Group. Between June 8, 2018 and April 6, 2019, the CNIL received 15 complaints from individuals relating to the exercise of their data protection rights with affiliates of the Carrefour Group.

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Selling and utilising personal data in an insolvency situation

Data Protection Report

Many businesses are suffering serious financial difficulties as a result of COVID-19, particularly those in the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors. As a result, insolvency practitioners need to exercise caution and be mindful of the restrictions explained in this article and more broadly under GDPR and PECR.