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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1,955,385 BerryDunn and Reliable Networks Source (New) Finance and IT services USA Yes 1,107,354 VISAV Limited Source (New) IT services UK Yes >1,000,000 Designed Receivable Solutions, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Data apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. Data breached: 21,100,000 records. Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach.

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The Tragedy of the Data Commons

John Battelle's Searchblog

No, this post is about the business of health insurance. Last week ProPublica published a story titled Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates. It’s the second in an ongoing series the investigative unit is doing on the role of data in healthcare.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Preschool services provider Educational Enrichment Systems discloses cyber attack (unknown). Pacific Specialty Insurance Company notifies plan members of 2019 data breach (unknown). Rady’s Children Hospital in San Diego notifying patients whose data was accessed via open port on the Internet (unknown).

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for April 2023

IT Governance

Welcome to our April 2023 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 personal data. The revenue comes through advertising, with YouTube inserting commercials in their videos.

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US: In Washington State’s landmark facial recognition law, public sector practices come under scrutiny and regulation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

These are defined as “decisions that result in the provision or denial of financial and lending services, housing, insurance, education enrollment, criminal justice, employment opportunities, health care services, or access to basic necessities such as food and water, or that impact civil rights of individuals.”

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

We want businesses to ensure that their customers and future customers have consented to having their personal data processed, but we also need to ensure that the enormous potential for new data rights and freedoms does not open us up to new threats. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter?

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