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TikTok sued over its use of children’s personal data

IT Governance

TikTok is again being accused of illegally processing children’s personal data. The latest claim has been brought by Anne Longfield , the former children’s commissioner for England, who is suing the video-sharing app on behalf of 3.5 However, according to Ofcom, 44% of children aged 8 to 12 in the UK have a TikTok account.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019 ­– 39.7 million records leaked

IT Governance

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Broome Co.,

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

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. Video-sharing app TikTok agreed to a record $5.7 million (£4.2

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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors

Security Affairs

The author of the post claims that the data was acquired from US insurance giant Humana and includes detailed medical records of the company’s health plan members dating back to 2019. On July 18, we reached out to Humana to verify that the data belonged to them, but they have not responded yet. What was leaked?

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European Commission Issues GDPR Infographic

Hunton Privacy

On January 25, 2019, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued an infographic on compliance with and enforcement and awareness of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) since the GDPR took force on May 25, 2018. Three fines have been issued under the GDPR so far.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 security incident (unknown). Cyber attack on Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of staff and students (16,000). Data breaches. Babylon Health app lets patients see other people’s video consultations (unknown).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). The US Defence Information Systems Administration discloses 2019 cyber attack (unknown).