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Multinational ICICI Bank leaks passports and credit card numbers

Security Affairs

If malicious actors accessed the exposed data, the company could have faced devastating consequences and put their clients at risk, as financial services are the main target for cybercriminals. Employees, businesses, and individuals whose data were exposed could be at risk of spear phishing campaigns,” added researchers.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Data breached: 2,632,275 people’s data. 204 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

The GDPR provision that may keep IT security teams busiest is Article 32, which requires “a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing” of personal data. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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Assessing the Impact of the Barbados’ Proposed Data Protection Bill on the Barbadian Private Sector

Data Matters

The GDPR was designed to harmonize data protection laws across Europe and to protect EU residents’ data privacy rights; and, its coming triggered significant privacy and data protection compliance activities amongst organizations doing business in the EU and working with the personal data of EU residents.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Crimeware is a type of malware that cyber criminals use to commit identity theft or gain financial information to execute transactions. Other techniques to steal personal data include the use of keyloggers that record all keystrokes and can reveal information. Crimeware and spyware. Other methods.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

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. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. and Robert W.

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Executive Order on access to Americans’ bulk sensitive data and Attorney General proposed regulations – Part 2

Data Protection Report

Recall that the focus of the Executive Order was not on single transactions, but rather bulk transactions of Americans’ personal data. government, including the military and Intelligence Community.” The proposed regulations consider exempting some common inter-affiliate transactions to the extent that they are: (1) between a U.S.

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