Data Breach Today

MARCH 21, 2023

Researcher Says Database Containing Nearly 50,000 Documents Appears Secure Now Nearly 50,000 documents containing personal information of special education students who live in New York City and attend public school there were recently found exposed on the internet in an unsecured database.

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Education Security 130

AIIM

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Many of your company’s processes and documents must be analyzed to make sure you are compliant and up to standard. If you currently use filing cabinets, inboxes, and hard drives to store your documents, then an audit is likely your worst nightmare. A key component of compliance is making sure all your critical data is stored securely.

Archiving 97

Archiving Access Education Compliance 97

OneHub

MAY 13, 2021

Project managers are the unsung superheroes of the professional world, but document approvals are their kryptonite. So, how do you get a document approved on time without harassing your client? Create a secure, standardized system for document approvals. In-browser document previews are another great feature to look for.

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Education Communications Access Security 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

Samsung employees have unwittingly leaked top secret data by providing them to the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. Samsung employees have shared internal documents, including meeting notes and source code, with the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. ” reported TechRadar.

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Personal data Education Risk Privacy 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Documents and personal details of residents of the small Swiss town Rolle, on the shores of Lake Geneva, were stolen in a ransomware attack. The Swiss town Rolle disclosed the data breach after a ransomware attack, personal details of all its 6,200 inhabitants were stolen by threat actors. ” reported the website Remonews.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The BianLian extortion group claims to have stolen 6,8 TB of documents, including International HR data, international personal data. International financial data (over 800 GB), international medical and health data and international email correspondence.

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IT Ransomware Education Data breaches 109

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

On its digital platform, NSC provides online resources for its nearly 55,000 members spread across different businesses, agencies, and educational institutions. Also, the credentials could have been used to gain initial access into corporate networks to deploy ransomware, steal or sabotage internal documents, or gain access to user data.

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Passwords Healthcare Manufacturing Access 137

Hunton Privacy

JULY 13, 2022

The Executive Order also directs the Chair of the FTC to consider actions addressing “consumers’ privacy when seeking information about and provision of reproductive healthcare services.”

Privacy 112

Privacy Sales Education Compliance 112

AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

A recent study commissioned by Egnyte surveyed 400 IT leaders to understand how COVID-19 has impacted businesses’ ability to maintain data security and governance with a distributed workforce. A well-educated and well-informed workforce is one of the best defenses against security risks. Not knowing is simply no longer an option.

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Unstructured data Government Artificial Intelligence Risk 168

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

Data loss prevention (DLP) refers to a set of security solutions that identify and monitor information content across storage, operations, and networks. DLP solutions help detect and prevent potential data exposure or leaks. DLP integrates procedures, technology, and people to effectively detect and prevent sensitive data leaks.

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Data breaches Compliance Risk Access 70

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws.

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Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Security 145

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Student Data Privacy. Security Breach Notice Act. The number of affected consumers exceeding 5,000 is no longer a basis for providing substitute notice.

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Data breaches Privacy Education Data Privacy 107

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Consider these four best practices as the core of your finance team and business’ cybersecurity plan: •Regularly update and back-up your data systems.

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Cybersecurity Data breaches Compliance Phishing 223

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Data leak discovered: 30.09.2020 Inova contacted: 01.10.2020 Amazon contacted: 06.10.2020 Turkish CERT contacted: 05.10.2020 Response received: – Server secured: 12.10.2020.

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Data breaches Insurance Paper Access 96

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The main activities carried out by the organization are planning and coordinating the undergrounding of electrical wires, managing and maintaining the underground electrical network, and providing information and education about underground electrical networks. The LockBit ransomware group published the stolen data on August 30, 2023.

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Ransomware Education Security IT 116

IT Governance

JULY 4, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Also be sure to check out our new page, which provides a complete list of data breaches and cyber attacks for 2023.

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Data breaches Ransomware Government Insurance 96

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Rick Clark It’s evident that the legal eDiscovery industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the ever-expanding data varieties, volumes, and the velocity in growth for varieties and volume, especially in the last year.) For instance, there are 20 million text/chat messages sent every minute. *

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Communications Artificial Intelligence Data collection Education 41

Information Governance Perspectives

MAY 8, 2020

Hunter, Dr. Tao Jin, Dr. Patricia Franks, Rae Lynn Haliday, Cheryl Pederson, and Wendy McLain on the topic of Meeting Evolving Business Needs – A Conversation Between RIM Educators and Thought Leaders. And recruiters are looking for that education and experience. They have to move from defense to offense.

Education 52

Education Digital transformation Search queries Information governance 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2022

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. To meet the challenges of modern perimeterless, data-driven enterprises, it’s no longer enough to lock down the network. The security must be embedded with the data wherever it travels. Spirion’s Data Discovery and Classification is Step #1.

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Encryption Big data Cloud Access 87

IT Governance

AUGUST 18, 2020

A survey has found that 54% of UK universities reported a data breach to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in the past 12 months. Of the 86 universities that responded to a Freedom of Information request from security firm Redscan, the majority admitted serious shortcomings in their ability to prevent data breaches.

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Data breaches GDPR Education Phishing 116

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For example, organizations can use generative AI to: Quickly turn mountains of unstructured text into specific and usable document summaries, paving the way for more informed decision-making. Demystifying generative AI At the heart of Generative AI lie massive databases of texts, images, code and other data types.

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Sales Communications 124

Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

The popular university admission platform Leverage EDU leaked almost 240,000 sensitive files, including students’ passports, financial documents, certificates, and exam results. The Cybernews research team discovered that Leverage EDU leaked extremely sensitive data due to the misconfiguration of their systems.

Personal data 86

Personal data Education Phishing Risk 86

IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. It was followed by the public sector (47 incidents), and between them they account for almost half of all incidents that we documented. Download now.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 105

AIIM

APRIL 9, 2020

It was something focused primarily on paper documents. It was something focused on archiving the document rather than on the extraction of data from the document. For many years, information “capture” - or the way we collect information into a useable/manageable format, was somewhat of an afterthought.

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Digital transformation Information capture IT Artificial Intelligence 193

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. Although that’s a positive development in terms of organisations’ fight against cyber crime and their ability to prevent data breaches, we must remain cautious.

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Data breaches Ransomware Government Passwords 126

Collibra

JUNE 4, 2021

Although the enterprise demands business growth through digital transformation and optimization, the enterprise also constantly experiences challenges due to the lack of modern data and analytics governance. In fact, according to Nasdaq , 80% of analytics projects fail because of poor data governance. Education and training.

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Analytics Government Education Risk 59

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

Upon opening the attachment, ToxicEye installs itself on the victim’s device and performs some operations in background such as: stealing data deleting or transferring files killing processes on the PC hijacking the PC’s microphone and camera to record audio and video encrypting files for ransom purposes. ” concludes the report.

Communications 118

Communications File names Encryption Education 118

IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

The Stormous ransomware gang announced earlier this week that it had hacked Coca-Cola and stolen 161 gigabytes of data. Meanwhile, Digital Shadows Senior Cyberthreat Intelligence Analyst Chris Morgan, added: “There are screenshots reportedly highlighting documents taken from Coca Cola’s network. An unusual attack.

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Ransomware Phishing Encryption Sales 127

Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 4, 2021

(“Zoom” or the “Company”) agreed to pay $85 million to settle a class action suit that alleged the Company violated users’ privacy rights by misleading consumers about encryption security, sharing data through third-party integrations without adequate notice or consent, and failing to protect private meetings from being disturbed by “zoombombings.”

Privacy 102

Privacy Education Communications Encryption 102

Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They emphasized that understanding the whereabouts of your data and effectively managing it is not only essential for regulatory compliance but also carries significant legal and cost implications. The discussion highlighted the need to retain data only for as long as necessary, factoring in legal and business requirements.

Cybersecurity 136

Cybersecurity Risk Artificial Intelligence Privacy 136

Data Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The AI Bill of Rights is a set of five principles : (1) Safe and Effective Systems, (2) Algorithmic Discrimination Protections, (3) Data Privacy, (4) Notice and Explanation, and (5) Human Alternatives, Consideration and Fallback. Data privacy is at the center of the framework.

Privacy 88

Privacy Data Privacy Education Government 88

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On 16 November 2021, the French data protection supervisory authority (the “CNIL”) published a practical guide (“Guide”) on Data Protection Officers (“DPOs”). Among the organizations that have designated a DPO, the most represented sectors are, unsurprisingly, the public administration, education and health sectors.

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GDPR Compliance Personal data Communications 116

Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2024

After the first contact via instant messaging channels, further documents are then requested and a quote is provided. Education improves awareness” is his slogan. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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Insurance Education Sales Personal data 98

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The ransomware gang has added the organization to its dark web leak site and is threatening the victim to leak the alleged stolen data. Its mission is to improve the lives of people worldwide through research, clinical care and education. The center’s research focuses on cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.

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Ransomware Insurance Education Marketing 109

Preservica

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Marta Crilly, Archivist for Reference and Outreach at City of Boston explains how the team has been highly focussed on documenting how the city’s government is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main focus of the project has been to specifically document the experience of city workers, officials, and the city governments response.

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Digital preservation Archiving Government Education 52

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On December 20, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”), which would bring long-anticipated changes to the children’s online data privacy regime at the federal level in the U.S. Strengthening data security. The COPPA Rule has not been updated since 2012. Restricting ed tech in schools.

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Privacy Data Privacy Education Information Security 72