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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Compromised information varies from person to person.

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

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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. Data breached: 4,452,782 records. 79 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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

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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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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022 – 49.8 million records breached

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NB65 hackers reportedly stole credit card data of QIWI clients (unknown) Fei protocol suffers an extensive security breach (unknown) South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach (13,088) The Calcasieu Parish School Board has been the victim of a cyber fraud incident (unknown).

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62% of organisations unaware of the GDPR

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The finance and insurance (79%), information or communications (67%) and education (52%) sectors have the highest awareness of the GDPR. The finance and insurance sector is also the most likely to have put in place measures to comply with the GDPR, with 54% having done so. Preparing for the GDPR.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

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Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. It added: “We are working with local law enforcement, GEMA, GBI, and insurance officials to recover the funds. It found that 23.6%

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

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9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.