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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

Announcement: slight methodology change For data breaches and cyber attacks claimed by threat actors on dark web forums, where they provide samples or other evidence of the breach, we now accept these incidents as having genuinely occurred, but don’t accept the number of records the threat actor claims to have stolen at face value.

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2024 Cybersecurity Laws & Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive health information, particularly electronic health records (EHRs). HIPAA also requires organizations to conduct regular risk assessments and report data breaches.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. In case you missed it, you may also be interested in our first quarterly review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The crime scene.

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What’s a Lawyer’s Duty When a Data Breach Occurs within the Law Firm: Cybersecurity Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

When I spoke at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference last month, there was a question from the live stream audience about a lawyer’s duty to disclose a data breach within his or her law firm. When a breach is discovered, the ABA Opinion finds that the duty of competence under Model Rule 1.1 No exceptions*.

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First Ever Multi-State Data Breach Lawsuit Targets Healthcare Provider: Cybersecurity Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Just as the number of data breaches continues to rise, the number of lawsuits over data breaches continues to rise as well. Chances are that your data has been hacked at some point from at least one company with which you do business. But this lawsuit is unique. million US citizens. million US citizens.

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Fired IT Guy Deleted 23 of His Ex-Employer’s AWS Servers: Cybersecurity Trends

eDiscovery Daily

When it comes to data breaches and other cybersecurity threats, many people discuss the threats from outside hackers. In the days after he got fired, Needham got busy: he used the stolen login credentials to get into the computer account of a former colleague – Andy “Speedy” Gonzalez – and then began fiddling with the account settings.