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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

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.

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How data breaches are affecting the retail industry

IT Governance

Data breaches. What steps will the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) take to ensure organisations comply with the recently enforced GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? Customers of the Adidas.com website may have been affected by a breach after an unauthorised party gained access to customer data.

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New York Attorney General Fines E-Commerce Parent Company for Failing to Properly Handle a Data Breach

Hunton Privacy

On October 12, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office had secured a $1.9 million penalty from e-commerce retailer Zoetop, owner of SHEIN and ROMWE, following an improperly handled data breach. In addition, in 2020, Zoetop learned ROMWE login credentials were available on the dark web.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

IT Governance

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. In August 2020, it was embroiled in a data breach affecting more than 800,000 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2019 – 421 million records breached

IT Governance

In a month where security experts across Europe were boosting awareness of cyber security , organisations had mixed results in their own data protection practices. On the one hand, the 421,103,896 data records that were confirmed to have been breached in October represents about 50% of the monthly average. Data breaches.

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More than half of consumers would consider legal action if their data was compromised during a breach

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Six months on from the legal implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a third of consumers have admitted they still aren’t confident that the companies they interact with comply with the regulation. A surprising 17% of UK consumers said they still hadn’t heard of the regulation compared to just 9% in Germany.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Consumer privacy rights in California are well established. The California Constitution expressly grants California citizens a right to privacy. Accordingly, the CCPA was passed unanimously on June 28, 2018 by the California legislature and signed by the governor the same day.

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