IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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.

Personal data 111

Personal data Insurance GDPR Record destruction 111

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 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. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 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. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 28, 2024

Virtually every organization recognizes the power of data to enhance customer and employee experiences and drive better business decisions. Yet, as data becomes more valuable, it’s also becoming harder to protect. What is a data protection strategy?

Data breaches 64

Data breaches GDPR Compliance Encryption 64

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 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 set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 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 no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. For more details about the year’s incidents, check out our new page, which provides a complete list of known data breaches and cyber attacks in 2023.

Data breaches 104

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Privacy 104

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 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. TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Data breached: 2.7

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: 8 TB.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data?

Insurance 112

Insurance Passwords Libraries Access 112

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 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 breached data includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and financial account and Social Security numbers. Data breached: 16,924,071 individuals’ data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Data breaches 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 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. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

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. In total, 3,876 domain names were included in the exposed data set.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Insurance 115

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

TB of confidential data. The CyberNews investigation team discovered an unsecured, publicly accessible Kibana dashboard of an ElasticSearch database containing confidential data belonging to Apodis Pharma , a software company based in France. The archives include product data like product quantities and IDs, as well as warehouse data.

Healthcare 88

Healthcare Archiving Sales Access 88

IT Governance

MAY 7, 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. Data scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile data sets containing personal information.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

On 30 October 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ( Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit – “ Berlin DPA ”) imposed an administrative fine of about EUR 14.5 million against Deutsche Wohnen SE for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

GDPR 98

GDPR Personal data Archiving Compliance 98

Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. It’s all about creating the perfect balance between optimal medical services while upholding patient privacy.

Computer and Electronics 52

Computer and Electronics Insurance Compliance Risk 52

Armstrong Archives

MARCH 25, 2020

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) created standards for the storage and disposal of protected health information (PHI). Assignment of a privacy officer. Patient data must be destroyed in a way that minimizes the risks that its contents will be stolen. Employee training. Reviewing policies.

Archiving 52

Archiving Insurance Privacy Access 52

KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

True employee awareness of data privacy is not just about keeping sensitive documents from prying eyes. Here are nine topics a comprehensive privacy awareness program should cover. What your employees don’t know about handling data at your company or organization could burn you, and fast. How to label data.

Privacy 40

Privacy Passwords Data breaches Phishing 40

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

On November 5, 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (“the Berlin Commissioner,” Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit ) announced that it had imposed a fine of €14.5 After the inspection of 2017, Deutsche Wohnen SE improved its archiving system.

GDPR 79

GDPR Archiving Personal data Insurance 79

Hunton Privacy

JULY 25, 2017

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced the release of an updated web tool that highlights recent data breaches of health information. Entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) are required to notify OCR when they experience a data breach.

Data breaches 40

Data breaches Insurance Paper Archiving 40

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

Archive Document Data Storage

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Furthermore, a privacy breach may result in stiff fines and penalties from non-compliance with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a rule of thumb, shred any document containing a name, birth date or national insurance number. . credit reports. benefit reports. purchase and sales orders. credit reports.

Sales 49

Sales Paper Archiving Insurance 49

Info Source

JULY 17, 2018

New Windsor, July 17, 2018 – Web-based forms created with DocuWare Forms simplify and speed up data collection. Recognizing the high utility of web forms and its widespread use in its customer base, DocuWare enhanced the functionality of input fields for optimized, structured data collection.

Data collection 40

Data collection Insurance Data Privacy Paper 40

Data Protection Report

JULY 8, 2019

Following the now famous €50m fine imposed on Google LLC in January 2019, [1] the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL ) published a decision taken on 28 May 2019 [2] imposing a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a company specialised in real estate development, purchase, sale, rental and property management.

GDPR 40

GDPR Personal data Compliance Security 40

Data Protection Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

On the 7 th August 2017, the UK’s Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport issued a Statement of Intent (the Statement ) outlining its planned reforms of the UK’s data protection laws which are to be implemented by the Data Protection Bill (the Bill ).

Government 40

Government GDPR Personal data Insurance 40

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are ongoing, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This part also discusses managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. The Proof of Concept (PoC) can help inform the approach to develop the data migration strategy.

Digital transformation 54

Digital transformation Risk IT Computer and Electronics 54

Armstrong Archives

JULY 26, 2018

Every healthcare provider in the country must abide by strict Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. It can be easy to violate a rule and expose patient records to data breaches. HIPAA-compliant medical records storage can keep sensitive data secure and free from prying eyes.

Archiving 40

Archiving Compliance Risk Insurance 40

Info Source

DECEMBER 8, 2023

BPOs with advanced skills have the opportunity to position themselves as AI technology hubs and advisors especially in the coming learning phase, as privacy aspects are addressed, regulations are catching up and business models are being refined. The major Capture & IDP use cases in the Insurance sector also relate to Case Management.

Marketing 40

Marketing Customer Experience Energy and Utilities Digital transformation 40

AIIM

MARCH 12, 2018

Information Privacy and Security: GDPR is Just the Tip of the Iceberg. From Documents to Content to Data. Swapping My Privacy Rights to Find a Taqueria. Data is the New Oil -- Especially in Oil and Gas! Getting Ahead of the Disruption Curve is Critical for Insurance Companies. And Then It’s Not. Which is Tougher?

ECM 90

ECM Digital transformation Digital preservation Content services 90

Data Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the California Legislature drafted and passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in record time. Businesses, consumer advocates, and privacy watchers have thus been eagerly waiting for over a year for the Attorney General to propose the regulations the CCPA requires him to promulgate.

Sales 60

Sales Privacy Passwords Compliance 60

Armstrong Archives

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

A business has to comply with various regulations regarding data privacy, or else risk huge fines. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) audits, for example, can result in million-dollar penalties for companies that fail to comply. Take last year’s immense Equifax data breach , for example.

Risk 40

Risk Records Management Data breaches Insurance 40

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

On November 26, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it imposed a fine of €2.25 million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies.

GDPR 91

GDPR Personal data Data collection Marketing 91

Shoreline Records Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the advent of electronic health records (EHRs) and the increasing emphasis on data security and accessibility, the role of offsite medical records storage has become paramount, especially in the context of physicians’ responsibilities as they seek to close their practice.

Records Management 26

Records Management Paper Compliance Access 26

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

New data found in GreatHorn's 2023 State of Email Security report shows that this is exactly what's been happening in the last 12 months. When people realize the value of their data, they're more vigilant and protective of it," Watson says. Organizations should also have a process for their employees to report suspicious activity.

Phishing 82

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 82