Troy Hunt

MAY 15, 2020

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I know: Back in Feb, Dehashed reached out to me with a massive trove of data that had been left exposed on a major cloud provider via a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance.

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Data breaches Personal data Cloud Mining 145

John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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GDPR Government Personal data Mining 90

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised. I’m sorry, Dave.

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Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 63

John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

GDPR 58

GDPR Government Personal data Mining 58

John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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GDPR Government Personal data Mining 40