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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

It emerged this week, according to the New York City Department of Education, that data from a further 381,000 students was also compromised in this incident. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Young, Inc.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. education information. biometric information. geolocation data.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Protections Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. education information. biometric information. geolocation data.

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Data security: Why a proactive stance is best

IBM Big Data Hub

It means physically securing servers and user devices, managing and controlling access, application security and patching, maintaining thoroughly tested, usable data backups and educating employees. Require strong passwords. Strong passwords are your company’s first defense in protecting data and customer information.

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

IT Governance

The leaked information allegedly includes customers’ names, dates of birth, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Data breached: 10,870,524 lines. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 130,036,285 records known to be compromised, and 116 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 8 – 14 January 2024

IT Governance

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. GB Rebekah Children’s Services Source (New) Non-profit USA Yes 2,805 Butte School District Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Education USA Yes 2,658 Dignity Health Nevada St. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Vauxhall Motors database with 5.5

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

Data Protection Report

The proposed regulations anticipate exempting data transactions “to the extent that they are ordinarily incident to and part of the provision of financial services” including: (i) banking, capital-markets, or financial-insurance services; (ii) a financial activity authorized by 12 U.S.C. §

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