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Russian Hackers Target Ukrainians' Personal Data, Says Kyiv

Data Breach Today

Hackers Are Targeting Ukrainian Insurance Companies for Their Personal Information Ukraine's top cybersecurity agency says Russian hackers took a sudden interest in obtaining personal data and mounted successful attacks against more than one-third of the country's largest insurers.

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Over-Retention of Personal Data

Data Protection Report

The declining cost of electronic data storage may have caused some company executives to conclude that retaining personal data forever is “cheap.” The matter involved one of France’s largest insurers, SGAM AG2R LA MONDIALE, which was subject to an inspection by the French data protection authority (the CNIL), in 2019.

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India: New Digital Personal Data Protection Act, Start Planning Now.

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Gwyneth To and Rachel De Souza Start preparing now to comply with India’s new data protection law. The DPDP Act is India’s first comprehensive law on the protection of personal data and comes six years after the Supreme Court of India first declared a fundamental right to privacy in the Puttaswarmy case in 2017.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. As indicated in the paragraph quoted above, the company collected some very sensitive personal information.

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First American Title Insurance Co. Faces Charges in NY

Data Breach Today

Company Could Be Fined $1,000 for Each Violation of State Cybersecurity Law The New York State Department of Financial Services has filed civil charges against First American Title Insurance Co., which has been accused of exposing hundreds of millions of documents that contained customers' mortgage and personal data.

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The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus

Schneier on Security

The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header.

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CJEU Rules on Processing of Sensitive Data and Compensation Under the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

Background The case related to the processing of an incapacitated employee’s personal data, including health data, by the medical service provider (“MDK”) of a health insurance fund in Germany. Under applicable law, the MDK draws up reports on the capacity of individuals insured by the health insurance fund to work.

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