Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2024

Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS) revealed that the 2023 data breach following the LockBit ransomware attack impacted 6 million individuals. IMS specializes in providing business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology (IT) services specifically tailored for the insurance and financial services industries.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months Date of breach: 24 May 2023 ( notice issued 20 October 2023).

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 89

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured Amazon Bucket, which was operated by a Turkish Legal advising company, INOVA YÖNETIM & AKTÜERYAL DANI?MANLIK. Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums.

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Data breaches Insurance Paper Access 113

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compromised information included patients’ names, dates of birth, postal addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, and health insurance information.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Libraries 73

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

According to Group-IB Threat Intelligence and Attribution system, Swarmshop is a mid-size “neighborhood” store for stolen personal and payment records. The analysis of the freshly exposed database found that the information was new as it indicated the latest user activity timestamps. percent of which were issued by the US banks.

Passwords 108

Passwords Insurance Personal data Sales 108

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The analysis of the leaked files revealed that they contain confidential information regarding the recruitment process, professional resumes, and info about the internal structures of the Group’s human resource department. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data.

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Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 82

IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Pacific Specialty Insurance Company notifies plan members of 2019 data breach (unknown). Rady’s Children Hospital in San Diego notifying patients whose data was accessed via open port on the Internet (unknown). Students at IIT Madras fear for their personal data amid ransomware attack (unknown). Data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 139

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2024

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data included shoppers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, countries of residence and membership numbers. The information mostly related to court proceedings.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 64

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. have notified 330,000 people that their personal data might have been compromised as part of the MOVEit Transfer data breach.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 52

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Primary areas of focus for the DPC in 2021 included the safeguarding of children’s data protection rights, progressing ongoing large-scale inquires and prioritising responding to complaints which have raised issues of substance, with a data subject centric approach to resolution. Our analysis of the WhatsApp decision can be read here.

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Financial Services Data breaches Personal data Compliance 97

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

The GDPR provision that may keep IT security teams busiest is Article 32, which requires “a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing” of personal data. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Security 145

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 Data breached: 4,452,782 records. Information relating to nearly 4.5

Data Privacy 57

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 57

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Other techniques to steal personal data include the use of keyloggers that record all keystrokes and can reveal information. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online. NGFWs can also provide log analysis and dashboard management for insight into traffic patterns. Crimeware and spyware.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 145

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As a result, data has become a critical asset for companies and governments alike, as well as the primary target for nefarious actors and nation states. Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is the top target for cybercriminals, according to the annual Cost of a Data Breach report by IBM and Ponemon Institute. In the Dec.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Encryption 118

IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Incident details: A security vulnerability in a third party left personal data exposed of thousands of motorists who had their vehicle towed on behalf of the An Garda Síochána.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 52

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 6,009,014 accounts. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com

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Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 57

Collibra

JANUARY 14, 2022

Today, businesses collect and process large volumes of data. The concern of protecting this data, especially personal data , has been around for quite some time. The sheer volume of data and the increased proliferation of cloud technology has brought this concern to the fore again.

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Compliance Government GDPR Personal data 52

IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. The report, which collates data received from 35 million people across the world, found a 569% increase in phishing attacks.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 2, 2015

The Act’s baseline of consumer protections would apply broadly (with certain stated exceptions) to the privacy practices of covered entities that collect, create, process, retain, use or disclose personal data in or affecting interstate commerce. Key examples of the proposed privacy protections and obligations include: Transparency.

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Privacy Personal data Risk Insurance 40

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Breached records: more than 56 million.

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Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Related: Hackers direct botnets to manipulate business logic Thompson is accused of pilfering sensitive data for 100 million US and 6 million Canadian bank patrons. In today’s environment, testing must run continuously, and it needs to include the ability to find actual attack behaviors that can lead up to a data breach.

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Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Cloud 198

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The French data protection authority (CNIL) has just adopted Single Authorization No. AU-054 (the “AU-054”) on July 13, 2017 in order to cover the processing of personal data implemented in relation to these fraud prevention/detection systems. The broad range of personal data that can be processed under the AU-054.

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Personal data Financial Services Risk Insurance 40

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 9, 2020

In its report, the DPC noted that the ad-tech industry is subject to separate inquiries – this report is more broadly focussed on organisations across a range of sectors, including retail, entertainment, insurance, banking, public sector, media and publishing. DPC Guidance. The Law – Interaction with the GDPR. Enforcement.

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GDPR Analytics Personal data Compliance 59

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, the South Dakota State Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would require companies to inform consumers of any “unauthorized acquisition” of personal data, unless the company and the State Attorney General’s Office determine that the breach is unlikely to harm those affected. under HIPAA).

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Encryption 40

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The attackers seek to steal documents that contain commercial secrets and employee personal data. Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel.

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Cloud Phishing Analytics Access 144

Information Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

” [link] 2018/11/18/follow-the-data- investigative-journalism-in- the-age-of-algorithms/#sm. May I have a word about… football, data analysis and donkeys – The Guardian, 18 November 2018. ” [link] theobserver/commentisfree/ 2018/nov/18/may-i-have-a-word- about-football-data-analysis.

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Artificial Intelligence Insurance Big data GDPR 40

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Insurance Communications Authentication Access 343

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

processing on a large scale of special categories of data referred to in Article 9 (1) or of a personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10; or. when the data controller has a doubt, it is also advisable to proceed to a DPIA. in the automotive insurance sector); Monitoring.

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Data Privacy IT GDPR Privacy 40

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During the week of October 4, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law bills amending the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), California’s data breach notification law and California’s data security law. Genetic Data: Genetic Testing Privacy Bill. Code Section 1798.81.5)

Privacy 98

Privacy Insurance Security Data breaches 98

Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. AB 375 will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, unless changed in the interim.

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GDPR Privacy Sales Data breaches 79

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers are sending bots out to run comparative analysis on discrimination through personalization around the web, potentially offering some transparency to an otherwise opaque and individualized process. Personal data gets really personal. ” HP Lovecraft on Big Data – The Atlantic.

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Big data Government Insurance Libraries 66

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Moreover, the operational consequences of a cyber attack should not only be analyzed in terms of compromising the personal data of its customers and employees. A cyber risk analysis must have a significant component of training and a review of organizational control processes. there could be reputational damage.

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Insurance Risk Ransomware Encryption 134

Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. AB 375 will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, unless changed in the interim.

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