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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2023 – 867,072,315 Records Breached

IT Governance

Sector overview Most-breached sectors (by number of incidents) # Sector Incidents 1 Other 34 30% 2 Healthcare 31 27% 3 Education 16 14% 4 (tie) Media and telecoms 12 11% 4 (tie) Public and non-profit 12 11% 6 Legal 5 4% 7 Finance and insurance 4 4% Note: The percentages add up to 101% due to rounding.

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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a breach to include login credentials and narrowing the permissible circumstances under which substitute notice may be used.

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Establish the Genetic Information Privacy Act, Pending Governor’s Signature

Hunton Privacy

Not disclosing, subject to specified exceptions, a consumer’s genetic data to certain entities ( e.g. , those responsible for making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance or employment). The Act also excludes from the definition of genetic data, “deidentified data,” as defined in the Act.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

million people was compromised, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, medical information, health insurance information, and billing and claims information. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Information relating to nearly 4.5 Data breached: 4,452,782 records.

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Connecticut Strengthens Data Breach Notification Requirements and the Uniform Law Commission Approves and Recommends Comprehensive and Uniform State Privacy Legislation

Data Matters

In addition, the Act expands the definition of personally identifying information, compromise of which would constitute a data breach, to include patient data and medical data—a general category of health-related information that is not limited to protected health information under HIPAA.

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Connecticut Enacts Consumer Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S.