IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? TB Paysign, Inc.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Data breached: >35 million people’s data. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 5,255,944,117 records known to be compromised, and 128 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 117 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

Data Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

My full written testimony is in that link and it talks about many of the issue we face today and the impact data breaches have on identity verification. That was really our mandate - understanding the impact on how we verify ourselves - but I want to go back a step and focus on how we tackle data breaches themselves.

Education 74

Education Data breaches Passwords Risk 74

IT Governance

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That meant that anywhere that planned to reopen was required to collect customers’ names and contact details upon entry and store the data for 21 days. You can see more incidents from July in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can see more incidents from August in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data breaches 97

Data breaches Ransomware Government GDPR 97

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 20, 2013

On June 20, 2013, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) launched its Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2012/13 (the “Report”). He outlined the seven key “e”s of the ICO’s role: enforce, educate, empower, enable, engage, and to be effective and efficient. Enforcement.

FOIA 40

FOIA Education Personal data Compliance 40

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It waited nearly six weeks before informing victims that their personal information had been stolen and they were at increased risk of identity theft. It confessed to another data leak in January 2017. In May 2016, one of its websites was hacked, resulting in 430,000 people having their personal information stolen.

Personal data 83

Personal data Computer and Electronics Privacy Data breaches 83

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120