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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Records breached: Unknown, but sensitive personal data was probably breached. BHI Energy Announces Data Breach Affecting Confidential Information of 91k Individuals Date of breach: 29 June 2023 (filed notice with the Attorney General of Maine on 18 October 2023). This includes employee data. Records breached: Unknown.

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

I have authored 13 books on these subjects, including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015). 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's a data broker.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Whether an employee is acting on his or her employer’s business or for personal reasons, is important. A few months later, he uploaded the data onto a file-sharing website and later sent it to newspapers. Mr Skelton has been convicted of various criminal offences and, in July 2015, received a custodial sentence.