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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

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.

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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 Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

ru Source (New) Retail Russia Yes 38,694 Richmont Graduate University Source (New) Education USA Yes 37 GB CBIZ KA Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,295 La Red Health Center Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 35,602 Kinetic Leasing, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >400 GB Hafez Insurance Co.

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de Source (New) Retail Germany Yes 334,000 Yakima Valley Radiology, PC Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 235,249 Consorzio Innovation Source (New) Professional services Italy Yes 225 GB Northeast Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 177,276 Strike.me

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Professional services USA Yes Unknown Thillens Source (New) Finance USA Yes Unknown Elston-Nationwide Carriers Source (New) Transport USA Yes Unknown American Insulated Glass Source (New) Retail USA Yes Unknown MooreCo Inc. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place.

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

IT Governance

Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number). It remains unclear how the data breach occurred, but the attackers apparently suggested it was the result of “exploiting vulnerabilities within government databases of telecommunication systems”.

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

IT Governance

Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., Source (New) Retail USA Yes Unknown Autodesk Source (New) Software USA Yes Unknown DATAIR Employee Benefit Systems, Inc.