Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Governments need to take action.

Personal data 71

Personal data Data breaches Government Authentication 71

IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

With organisations across the globe turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a worse time to suffer a data breach or cyber attack. Data breaches. Nursing home probed after leaving disabled patients’ data on street (36). Detectives investigate data breach at Jefferson Co.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2019

Home improvement retailer B&Q has suffered a data breach affecting 70,000 of its… well, not customers, exactly. The breached database contained a list of people who had been caught stealing products from B&Q stores. The post 70,000 affected in B&Q data breach appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Retail 111

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

But there were dozens of other cyber attacks and data breaches where the organisation either didn’t know or reveal the extent of the damage. Data breaches. We typically expect ambiguity when it comes to ransomware, because organisations are locked out of their files and can’t calculate what’s been affected. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. But it looks like my own personal data has been breached – again. But none of these reasons rose to the top in retail. Not used in years. Doing the math perhaps?

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The list tells me one thing: organisations need to get themselves ready for a data breach. Cyber attack on Italian National Institute for Social Assistance threatens users’ personal data. Data Breach. Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach. Keys schools computer system hacked.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Passwords Ransomware Phishing 111

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached 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. Data breached: 395 GB.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

Recently another data breach made the headlines, the hack of the payroll services provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. At this time the number of installs located in the UK is 127.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Data breaches Retail Government 95

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In September, British Airways announced it had suffered a data breach that compromised the personal and financial data of more than 380,000 customers. Is your organisation prepared for a data breach? The post BA data breach: 565,000 customers may have been affected appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

Data breaches 102

Data breaches GDPR Personal data Communications 102

IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. How did the data breach occur? However, the ICO hasn’t confirmed this.

Data breaches 65

Data breaches Personal data Libraries Information Security 65

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today.

Data Privacy 78

Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 78

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2018

If these could have been used to identify individuals, this would have constituted a personal data breach under the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It has also contacted the Information Commissioner’s Office, which “confirmed that this was not a data breach and no personal data was compromised”.

Retail 65

Retail Data breaches Personal data GDPR 65

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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: >33,000,000 people’s data. Compromised data included names, ID card numbers, phone numbers, emails, salaries and personal photographs.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records. They accessed 41.5

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This week, we discuss Amazon’s exposure of customer names and addresses, jail sentences for two TalkTalk hackers, and a data breach affecting a City of York rubbish app. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 November. Here are this week’s stories. The issue has been fixed.

Data breaches 96

Data breaches Personal data Passwords Encryption 96

IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Although the GDPR prescribes a penalty regime of fines up to the greater of 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million (about £17 million), the scale of these first fines – and the extent to which the ICO clearly intends to crack down on organisations that fail to properly secure the personal data they process – took most organisations by surprise.

Data breaches 78

Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 78

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The GDPR puts forth a litany of rules for how organizations in and outside of Europe handle the personal data of EU residents. The details of any organization’s plan to become fully GDPR compliant will vary based on the data the organization collects and what it does with that data.

GDPR 75

GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 75

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Harris announced the release of the second annual California Data Breach Report. The report provides information on data breaches reported to California’s Attorney General in 2012 and 2013. Overall, 167 breaches were reported by 136 different entities to California’s Attorney General in 2013.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Retail Encryption Sales 40

IT Governance

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this blog, we take a close look at what a data controller and processor does and how they fit into your organisation. What is a data controller? A data controller determines the purposes for which an organisation collects and uses personal data. Are you a data controller or a data processor?

GDPR 95

GDPR Personal data Compliance Privacy 95

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. We’ve also included more details on the top 3 biggest breaches of the week. Breached records: more than 56 million. Breached records: about 9 million.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. His research also revealed that the stolen data contains 305 lines of data, including 74.4

Data breaches 122

Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 122

IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

We’ve looked at sources such as IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report , Verizon’s 2023 DBIR (Data Breaches and Investigations Report) and Proofpoint’s The State of Phishing report , and found 50 essential stats to reveal the threat that phishing plays – plus we have an extra statistic to explain how you can prevent attacks.

Phishing 111

Phishing Data breaches Communications Government 111

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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?

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has announced a major data breach affecting up to 9.4 The breach also affects Cathay’s regional airline, Cathay Dragon. What data has been compromised? The breach exposed a broad selection of data, including: names. Containing the breach. nationalities.

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Personal data Passwords GDPR 81

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A data processor is the organisation that does the legwork; it processes the information on the controller’s behalf. For example, a marketing executive at a retailer hires a company to conduct a survey on shoppers’ browsing habits. That’s not to say that the data processor is entirely at the whim of the data controller.

GDPR 107

GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 107

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 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.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

MAY 23, 2019

Things are certainly better than they were a year ago, but many organisations are still figuring out how they can satisfy the needs of individuals while also using their personal data to fulfil their business needs. How has the GDPR affected data breach reporting? Data breaches are hard to hide.

GDPR 72

GDPR Data breaches Compliance Retail 72

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Thanks to a whopping data breach from an unknown server exposing 419 million data records, our monthly total comes to 531,596,111 breached records. This brings the total amount of breached records for the year so far to 10,331,579,614. xkcd forum taken offline after personal data leak (562,000).

Data breaches 22

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Military 22

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 28, 2022

Looking back on 2021, the privacy and data protection landscape continues to evolve at pace. In Europe we saw the UK finally conclude Brexit and establishment of a separate data protection regime in the UK which will be governed by the UK GDPR. Data transfers to other countries remain a challenge. billion (USD1.2 / GBP0.9

GDPR 98

GDPR Privacy Data breaches Personal data 98

IT Governance

JUNE 19, 2019

You can do this by breaking risk into its two component parts: Probability : the likelihood that the data processing will result in a data breach or privacy violation. Damage : the effects on the individual if a data breach or privacy violation occurs. Storing data for a substantial length of time.

GDPR 73

GDPR Personal data Risk Data breaches 73

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On September 15, 2016, the New Jersey Senate unanimously approved a bill that seeks to limit retailers’ ability to collect and use personal data contained on consumers’ driver and non-driver identification cards.

Privacy 45

Privacy Retail Personal data Insurance 45

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

On November 26, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it imposed a fine of €2.25 million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies.

GDPR 91

GDPR Personal data Data collection Marketing 91

IT Governance

JUNE 11, 2019

The club responded to the incident promptly, notifying the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) of the breach and posting a notice on the club shop website. The club has been in direct contact with all users that were potentially affected by this breach,” it added. There are many ways to mitigate the risks of a data breach.

GDPR 66

GDPR Personal data Data breaches Retail 66

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 8, 2017

Moreover, issues discovered after an M&A transaction has concluded can expose companies to massive liabilities such as expensive consumer class action litigation, intrusive government investigations, hefty remediation costs and other expenses.”. Read the full press release.

Privacy 45

Privacy Security Retail Personal data 45

IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. The next most frequent targets were software-as-a-service and webmail providers (20.5%) and e-commerce sites and retail stores (14.6%).

Phishing 116

Phishing e-Delivery Retail Insurance 116

IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

Data breaches. What steps will the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) take to ensure organisations comply with the recently enforced GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? How will customers, suppliers and partners react to organisations that suffer a breach? What is the cost of a data breach?

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches GDPR Compliance 66