IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Millions of Pure Incubation Ventures records listed on hacking forum 183,754,481 records apparently belonging to the venture capital and private equity group Pure Incubation Ventures have been listed for sale on a hacking forum. Data breached: 183,754,481 records.

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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. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

Florence, AL, government hit by cyber attack (unknown). China launches cyber attacks on government websites and banks following India massacre (unknown). Cyber attack on Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of staff and students (16,000). Australian government bombarded by cyber attacks (unknown).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

million) India’s public education app exposed millions of students’ data (1.6 Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Regardless of the specific techniques being used, it’s likely that millions of sensitive data records have been compromised – although few victims have listed specific figures. AT&T AT&T has notified approximately 9 million customers that their personal data has been exposed in a data breach.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

in fraud over the sale of a Constable painting (1). Entertainment law firm GSM&S hacked, exposing celebrities’ personal info (unknown). US Marshals Service says personal data of current and former prisoners was stolen (387,000). Wright County, MN, government notifies those affected by cyber attack (12,320).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

million) Personal data from eatigo accounts accessed in a security incident (2.8 The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2020 – 18.4 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Ransomware.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Governor also signed into law a bill protecting the privacy and security of genetic data processed by direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and a bill designed to prevent the sale, purchase and use of data obtained by illegal means. Code Section 1798.82))and (2) data security law (Cal. CPRA Amendment Bills.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

When major brands like Uber and Procter & Gamble recently slashed their digital ad spending by the hundreds of millions, they proclaimed that it made no dent at all in their sales. Early demonstrations illustrate how chatbots can be used to surreptitiously extract personal data by asking you mundane questions.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

million) Serco says ‘no data compromised’ despite hack (0) France’s Dax hospital center targeted by a large-scale cyber attack (unknown) Singaporean telecoms company Singtel suffers cyber attack (unknown) Michigan State Police investigating cyber attack on Saginaw Township schools (unknown). Data breaches. Ransomware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many organizations opt for a private cloud setting to protect sensitive data—a business need that is becoming increasingly important. For example, government agencies frequently choose private cloud settings for workloads that deal with confidential documents, personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 6, 2019

On May 29, 2019, Nevada enacted an amendment to its online privacy law, requiring businesses to offer consumers a right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. While it has some similarities to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), it contains notable differences.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9 Patches were rushed out , but many.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

If the upgrade can provide a richer data set to the manufacturer, it’s a double win. Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and virtually every other major technology manufacturer are building their own constellation of products. Online ecosystems of connected devices are not unique to Amazon. In the U.S.,

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the midst of all this, organisations across Europe reported delays as a result of alleged state-sponsored attacks – including Toyota’s Japanese plants and a kettle manufacturer in the Isle of Man. You can see more incidents from February in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Definition of “publicly available” : Clarifies the meaning of “publicly available” in the definition of “personal information” as follows: “information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records. and the vehicle’s manufacturer. Code § 1798.140(o)(2)). Code § 1798.105(d)(1)).

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The amendments include the limitation that “personal information” is not “publicly available” if the data was used for a purpose not compatible with the purpose for which the government maintained it has been deleted. That information cannot be used, communicated, disclosed, or sold except as authorized by FCRA.

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