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

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 million customers’ data compromised Cyber criminals known as dawnofdevil have claimed responsibility for a data breach at Hathaway Cable & Datacom Ltd, one of India’s largest Internet service providers, in December 2023.

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

IT Governance

Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. TB Cole, Cole, Easley & Sciba Source New Legal USA Yes 1.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 105,387 Carter’s | Oshkosh Israel Source (New) Retail Israel Yes >100,000 SodaStream Source (New) Manufacturing Israel Yes >100,000 Amsellem & Weitz Source (New) Legal Israel Yes 100 GB Stanley Steemer International, Inc. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 January 2024

IT Governance

Data breached: 2 PB. Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

million customers’ data stolen VF Corporation – the parent company of many popular clothing brands, including Vans and The North Face – has confirmed in its Form 8-K/A filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (an amendment to its original Form 8-K filing ) that its December 2023 cyber attack resulted in the theft of 35.5

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

Evolving privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) mean ongoing headaches for cybersecurity, compliance and risk management teams. At least 10 additional states have enacted or are considering data privacy laws.