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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 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 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.

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The California Consumer Privacy Act Surfaces in Recent Data Breach Class Action Complaint

Hunton Privacy

At this point, most companies doing business in California are aware of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and most have been bracing for the eventual onslaught of class action litigation to follow its passage. On February 3, 2020, a class action lawsuit was filed that expressly references the CCPA— Barnes v. 3:20-cv-00812.

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SEC Announces 2022 Examination Priorities: Private Funds, ESG, Retail, Cyber, Digital Assets Top the List

Data Matters

1 Consistent with its recent rulemaking activity, in its accompanying release, the SEC highlighted private funds; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing; retail; cyber; and digital assets as key examination priorities. Private Fund, ESG Investing, Retail Investors, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and Digital Assets.

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SEC Announces Examination Priorities for 2019

Data Matters

Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released its report (the 2019 Report) setting forth its list of examination priorities for 2019 (the Exam Priorities). Exams are Risk-Based and Data-Driven. To this end, “OCIE is increasingly leveraging technology and data analytics as well as human capital to fulfill its mission.”.

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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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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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. Ransomware.