HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Financial Services 40

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 1, 2020

Today the Supreme Court allowed an appeal in Morrisons v Various Claimants1, a significant judgment addressing the extent of an employers’ liability for data breaches maliciously committed by an employee. The Data Protection Act 1998 does not exclude the imposition of vicarious liability for statutory or common law wrongs.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches GDPR Personal data Information governance 59

Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 21, 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or the Department) issued a statement of charges and notice of hearing (the Statement) against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for violations of the Department’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 N.Y.C.R.R.

Financial Services 68

Financial Services Cybersecurity Insurance Risk 68

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. The CCPA creates a limited private right of action for suits arising out of data breaches. Here’s what you need to know: The CCPA Provides a Limited Private Right of Action for Data Breach Suits. Code § 56 et seq.,

Privacy 81

Privacy Data breaches Insurance IT 81

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. The CCPA creates a limited private right of action for suits arising out of data breaches. Here’s what you need to know: The CCPA Provides a Limited Private Right of Action for Data Breach Suits. Code § 56 et seq.,

Privacy 40

Privacy Data breaches Insurance IT 40

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

to support individual and classwide actions for purported data security and privacy violations. The CCPA creates a limited private right of action for suits arising out of data breaches. Here’s what you need to know: The CCPA Provides a Limited Private Right of Action for Data Breach Suits. Code § 56 et seq.,

Privacy 40

Privacy Data breaches Insurance IT 40

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores.

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Magellan Health, a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm, was the victim of a ransomware attack. Magellan Health Inc announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place on April 11, 2020, the company also confirmed that hackers have stolen personal information from one of its corporate servers.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Passwords 140

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 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. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

Data Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2020

On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved and the federal banking agencies jointly announced on December 18 a notice of proposed rulemaking, Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers (NPR). 11 NPR, proposed 12 C.F.R.

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Security Cybersecurity Insurance Communications 68

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are ongoing, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. A cloud-first “mind-shift” implies using a cloud computing model, which exposes an organization to risks on the Internet, where data is considered “digital gold” that cyber criminals want to steal. 2020, p 6).

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Digital transformation Risk IT Computer and Electronics 54

KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

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Phishing Security Artificial Intelligence Security awareness 88

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Investors, business clients, and more continue to look for secure application access for remote workers , provide real-time visibility into cyberattacks, and protect data as it travels from the cloud to edge networks and end-users and back. Series A Cado Security 2020 London, UK 26 $11.5 Series B Wiz 2020 Tel Aviv, Israel 186 $230.0

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The cybersecurity industry faced a challenging combination of new and familiar challenges in 2020. In 2020, hackers actively exploited the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resulting unemployment. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

IoT 52

IoT Artificial Intelligence Passwords Phishing 52

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating in many months of exclusivity with a party I believed would ultimately be the purchaser of the service, unexpected changes to their business model made the deal infeasible. The point is the net was cast very wide. This is what the organisations bidding on HIBP were buying: trust in me.

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IT Mining Sales Data breaches 136

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

With 117 publicly reported security incidents, October 2020 is the leakiest month we’ve ever recorded. The good news is that those data breaches and cyber attacks accounted for just 18,407,479 breached records. With that in mind, here is our complete list of October’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Healthcare 141

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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