eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

Siev also couldn’t say exactly what the attackers were looking for or how they were manipulating the devices but did say that generally bad actors target IoT devices to either steal personal information or money like credit card numbers and to manipulate home systems like gates, safes and door locks. billion in 2018.

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Data Matters

JULY 22, 2020

13.709/2018 (the Brazilian Data Protection Law, or “ LGPD ”) in 2018 was followed by great enthusiasm from the general public in Brazil. Indeed, the comprehensive law has been viewed as a necessary measure for the country to join a select but growing group of nations in the systematic protection of individuals’ personal data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29. In 2018, the Timehop app suffered a serious breach that resulted in data belonging to 21 million users being compromised. Hackers used the compromised credentials to log in to Nintendo accounts, where they could access personal data about individuals, including their payment details.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Issue 6 of The Business of Data newsletter has just been published. The Business of Data. Issue 6 (27 November 2018). Getting value from your data under GDPR – Information Age, 15 November 2018. ” [link] com/data-under-gdpr-123476524/. Follow the Data? 0000qqi9mncyuepoqat2dnntnwyns.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 16, 2019

In keeping with the ICO’s earlier guidance on processing personal data of children, the primary factor for consideration here is whether the proposed activity is in the “best interests” of the child. 10-12: transition years. 0 – 5: pre-literate and early literacy. 6 – 9: core primary school years. 13-15: early teens.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked. French Data Protection Authority Imposes a Record 250,000 € Fine to Optical Center for a Security Breach on its Website. Data breaches in 2017.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

million customers had been compromised, but is now known to have affected 10 million customers. Customers of the Adidas.com website may have been affected by a breach after an unauthorised party gained access to customer data. The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. million, which is a 6.4%

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Back in 2018, Gizmodo reckoned HIBP was one of the top 100 websites that shaped the internet as we knew it , alongside the likes of Wikipedia, Google, Amazon and Goatse (don't Google it).

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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. Some 43% of EU tech companies are based in the UK and 75% of the UK’s data transfers are with EU member states. This is “Hamlet” without the prince.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Let's just recap on the value proposition of this service for a moment: for as little as 76c a day, you could subscribe to LeakedSource and view the raw data from a breach. OpenTable also seems to be pulling data from other breaches: @troyhunt @GossiTheDog did @OpenTable get popped?

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

Sextortion is “a form of sexual exploitation that happens when a perpetrator uses coercion to obtain sexual images, videos, money, or even sex from a victim.” [8] 2018, April 11). 2018, February 28). 2018, February 21). 2018, February 23). 2018, February 23). 1] Diamant, A. Ransomware attack cost city $2.7

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It's not just the media using scary imagery either, check out the first 20 seconds of this video promoting a home security product: Holy s**t! — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 1, 2018. It's pointless loading this, I'll keep working through the source incidents so that people know where their data actually came from.

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