CGI

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail. Retailers are fully aware that their future relies largely on their ability to use data efficiently. Data has become an essential resource and a key element in the growth strategy of large retail organizations. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

Retail 96

Retail Sales Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence 96

IT Governance

JUNE 25, 2018

With all the noise, however, it’s possible that the key facts haven’t been heard clearly, especially by those in smaller businesses where there isn’t always a defined person to take the lead for IT. Despite the benefits of good data management, it was widely acknowledged that many organisations would not be GDPR-compliant on 25 May.

Retail 71

Retail GDPR IT Compliance 71

Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Many businesses are suffering serious financial difficulties as a result of COVID-19, particularly those in the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors. For example, in February of this year, the FCA and ICO issued a joint statement warning regulated firms and insolvency practitioners of their responsibilities when dealing with personal data.

Personal data 100

Personal data Sales Marketing GDPR 100

IT Governance

JULY 20, 2018

As the saying goes, you’re only as strong as your weakest link, which is as true for data security as any other situation. Unfortunately, world-famous retailer Fortnum & Mason was recently let down by a weak link – survey company Typeform – that exposed the personal data of 23,000 of its customers.

Personal data 66

Personal data Retail Data breaches GDPR 66

IT Governance

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s relevant for everyone, including retail and hospitality. Retail and hospitality organisations will likely need to conduct several to cover all their processes, both new and existing. Common activities for retail and hospitality requiring DPIAs. The ICO also has excellent guidance on exactly when to carry out a DPIA.

Retail 78

Retail Risk GDPR Government 78

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As digital transformation takes hold, the retail industry is under siege from cyber criminals and nation states attempting to steal consumers’ personal information, credit card data and banking information. senior retail IT security managers and 96 IT security managers from retailers across the globe.

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Encryption 66

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Users are prepared to act to protect their data.

Personal data 71

Personal data Data breaches Government Authentication 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. But it looks like my own personal data has been breached – again. But none of these reasons rose to the top in retail. Not used in years. Doing the math perhaps?

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JULY 26, 2021

On July 5, 2021, the Italian supervisory authority (“ Garante ”) published an injunction against a company operating a food delivery app (“ Company ”) over the processing of riders’ personal data with respect to the use of algorithms for the management of the orders. Retention period. The need for a DPIA.

Personal data 52

Personal data GDPR e-Delivery Communications 52

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

” Rich Berkman, VP and Senior Partner for Digital Commerce at IBM iX A successful commerce strategy then is a holistic endeavor across an organization, focused on personalization and fostering customer loyalty even in deeply uncertain times. Commerce is a complex journey in which the moment of truth—conversion—takes place.

Customer Experience 87

Customer Experience Retail Marketing Sales 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now the company confirmed attackers stole corporate and personal information impacting 35.5 “Based on VF’s preliminary analysis from its ongoing investigation, VF currently estimates that the threat actor stole personal data of approximately 35.5 million customers. million individual consumers.”

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Passwords Retail Insurance 115

Collibra

APRIL 11, 2023

Retail is a dynamic and competitive market. In addition to the traditional brick-and mortar-stores, the retail business today includes online and mobile stores. Every process at every stage of these stores relies on data. The right kind of data can drive great innovations in retail. What if they do not match?

Retail 86

Retail Sales Compliance Marketing 86

OpenText Information Management

APRIL 4, 2018

On May 25, 2018, the new EU data privacy regulation, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), comes into force. Forget bitcoin, data is the new currency of retail appeared first on OpenText Blogs. Shortly after that the sky falls in and the world ends. But what if, just if, it’s not that bad?

Retail 54

Retail GDPR Data Privacy Privacy 54

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today.

Data Privacy 83

Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 83

Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

“The company has been hacked, data has been stolen and will soon be released as the company refuses to protect its peoples’ data.” ” The message above was sent to a customer of RaceTrac Petroleum , an Atlanta company that operates more than 650 retail gasoline convenience stores in 12 southeastern states.

Ransomware 288

Ransomware Personal data Retail Privacy 288

IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The incident occurred in late November, with the sports retail giant gearing up for Black Friday and the start of the World Cup. Intersport was initially confident that the attackers didn’t access customer data, but a Tech Monitor report claims that the Hive ransomware gang posted the information online weeks after the attack.

Ransomware 122

Ransomware Personal data Retail Risk 122

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2018

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. In its decision, the ICO meticulously detailed the chronology of events and technical failures that led to the breach.

Retail 40

Retail Personal data Security GDPR 40

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer.

Retail 44

Retail Data breaches Passwords Access 44

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

A limited amount of information about certain companies we regulate – some of it confidential – along with personal data of 412 Ofcom employees, was downloaded during the attack,” the spokesperson told The Record. “We The vulnerability affects all MOVEit Transfer versions, it doesn’t affect the cloud version of the product.

Communications 70

Communications Data breaches Ransomware Personal data 70

Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. It is probably the data put up for sale on RaidForum, now relase for free!

Data breaches 92

Data breaches Retail Sales Ransomware 92

Data Protection Report

JUNE 21, 2023

The new law has exclusions for Gramm-Leach-Bliley-covered financial institutions, HIPAA-covered covered entities and business associates, non-profits, institutes of higher education, and electric utilities, power generation companies, and retail electric providers. A similar requirement applies with respect to the sale of biometric data.

Privacy 84

Privacy Personal data Sales Retail 84

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost upon us, kickstarting what retailers hope will be a successful trading period. However, the flurry of purchases and the data that represents means cyber criminals will also be looking to cash in. And never disclose your personal information. Use credit cards. Need more information?

Retail 94

Retail Personal data GDPR Risk 94

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 25, 2020

Establishments and companies in the UK will therefore be responsible for the additional collection and potential sharing of customers’ personal data. Any entity engaging in this kind of data collection will need to comply with the requirements of data protection law.

Data collection 98

Data collection Personal data Compliance Retail 98

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. A sales thread tied to the allegedly stolen T-Mobile customer data. In at least one case , retail store employees were complicit in the account takeovers. WHO HACKED T-MOBILE?

Data breaches 312

Data breaches Access Retail Sales 312

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. Cyber attack on Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of staff and students (16,000).

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Retail Personal data 140

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

If you have looked at our recently released annual Data Threat Report: Retail Edition , you understand this is not just hyperbole. retail sector needs to come to terms with some bad news. The retail sector is responding to the onslaught of breaches, with 84% of companies surveyed planning to increase IT security spending.

Data breaches 63

Data breaches Retail IT Communications 63

IT Governance

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this blog, we take a close look at what a data controller and processor does and how they fit into your organisation. What is a data controller? A data controller determines the purposes for which an organisation collects and uses personal data. Are you a data controller or a data processor?

GDPR 95

GDPR Personal data Compliance Privacy 95

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2018

If these could have been used to identify individuals, this would have constituted a personal data breach under the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It has also contacted the Information Commissioner’s Office, which “confirmed that this was not a data breach and no personal data was compromised”.

Retail 65

Retail Data breaches Personal data GDPR 65

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The GDPR puts forth a litany of rules for how organizations in and outside of Europe handle the personal data of EU residents. The details of any organization’s plan to become fully GDPR compliant will vary based on the data the organization collects and what it does with that data.

GDPR 83

GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 83

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Retail 130

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Thailand’s Department of Older Persons breached, exposing almost 20 millio n personal data records The Department of Older Persons, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, suffered a data breach in which 19,718,687 rows or personal data was exposed.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

Oil and Gas giant Shell has confirmed that it is one of the victims of the recent large-scale ransomware campaign conducted by the Clop gang exploiting a MOVEit zero-day vulnerability Threat actors are actively exploiting the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34362 , to steal data from organizations worldwide.

Ransomware 92

Ransomware Data breaches Retail Government 92

Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 6, 2021

On July 30, 2021, the UK High Court handed down its judgment in the case of Warren v DSG Retail Ltd [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB), determining that the claimant could not seek damages on the basis of misuse of personal information, breach of confidence or common law negligence following a data breach. That fine is under appeal.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Retail Sales Personal data 116

Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

The bad news is that as a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. One of Zellis’s customers, the British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain Boots also confirmed to have been impacted by the attack.

Ransomware 79

Ransomware Retail Personal data Authentication 79

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In a nutshell, a data controller is the person or group that decides when and why an organisation collects data. A data processor is the organisation that does the legwork; it processes the information on the controller’s behalf. That’s not to say that the data processor is entirely at the whim of the data controller.

GDPR 107

GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 107

IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

million) Brazilian retailer Fast Shop confirms cyber attack (unknown) ADM Associates announces security incident (unknown) Guardian Fueling Technologies has been hacked (unknown) Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. The post List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in June 2022 – 34.9 hit by cyber criminals (unknown) Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.

Data breaches 136

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Blockchain 136

IT Governance

JUNE 13, 2018

Dixons Carphone has suffered a major data breach involving 5.9 million personal data records. At this point, the major consumer electronics retailer said there was no evidence of any fraud. In a second breach, personal customer data in the form of names, addresses and email addresses was accessed.

Retail 65

Retail Data breaches GDPR Compliance 65