Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The network also includes a children’s hospital, rehabilitation centers, and partnerships with academic institutions to support medical education and research. ” The investigation revealed that the ransomware gang had access to the personal data of at least 134,000 individuals, including cancer patients.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Education 124

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 8, 2019

This fragmentation has, unsurprisingly, lead to a heavy administrative burden for the secondary users of social and health care data by parallel and slow licence procedures with various authorities. The decisions on licenses are subject to an appeal.

Personal data 68

Personal data GDPR Healthcare Compliance 68

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

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). 93H to protect the personal information of Massachusetts residents.

Cybersecurity 114

Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics Compliance Privacy 114

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

3. Does an insurance policy that covers direct physical loss or damage to media cover the situation where ransomware renders downloaded software useless because it could not be decrypted? Which one is NOT on the list?

Privacy 115

Privacy Cybersecurity Personal data Insurance 115

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

The owner of the website where the data was posted has been arrested by the FBI, the website was shut down and the investigation is ongoing. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. million people.

Data breaches 118

Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 118

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 17, 2023

Controller Obligations Controllers would be required to implement reasonable security practices, provide a compliant privacy notice to consumers and enter into agreements with processors that handle the controller’s personal data. These rights notably exclude a right to correct inaccurate personal data.

Privacy 72

Privacy Personal data Sales Insurance 72

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. 9) deidentified data (that meets the requirements for deidentification under the law).

Privacy 98

Privacy Insurance Security Data breaches 98

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Data breaches. Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me Travel and medical insurance provider guard.me Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Data migration 140

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On November 29, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) launched an online public consultation regarding two new CNIL draft standards (“Referentials”) concerning the processing of personal data to manage (1) business activities and (2) unpaid invoices. . Background.

GDPR 81

GDPR Personal data Insurance Education 81

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Personal Paraguay telecom victim of cyber attack (unknown). Brazilian health insurance firm Fisco Saúde hit by cyber attack (unknown). Personal data of Kannur University students leaked from official website (30,000). Australia’s Xavier College says stolen student data might be released after hack (100).

Data breaches 114

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Insurance 114

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 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. Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond.

Phishing 114

Phishing Retail Data breaches Insurance 114

Data Matters

AUGUST 9, 2021

In recent weeks, Connecticut passed An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches (“The Act”), and the Uniform Law Commission approved and recommended the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (“UPDPA”). Uniform Personal Data Protection Act.

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Privacy Personal data Data Privacy 88

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

If malicious actors accessed the exposed data, the company could have faced devastating consequences and put their clients at risk, as financial services are the main target for cybercriminals. ICICI Bank’s response Threat to financial accounts Finance and insurance are one of the most targeted industries by cybercriminals.

Personal data 98

Personal data Phishing Risk Communications 98

Data Matters

JUNE 22, 2022

Carves out personal data processed solely for payments from definition of persons subject to the law – Persons subject to the law are defined with reference to the volume of data processed about Connecticut residents, as we have seen in other laws. Data in Scope – The Majority Approach.

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Personal data Sales 88

IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Records breached: Unknown, but sensitive personal data was probably breached. BHI Energy Announces Data Breach Affecting Confidential Information of 91k Individuals Date of breach: 29 June 2023 (filed notice with the Attorney General of Maine on 18 October 2023). It’s unclear whether personal data has been breached.

Data Privacy 95

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 95

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.

Data Privacy 143

Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Security 143

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This is exactly the sort of information criminals can use to impersonate victims to banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, cell phone companies and other businesses vulnerable to fraud. Regarding Equifax, few consumers have any idea what the company knows about them, who they sell personal data to or why.

Personal data 94

Personal data Computer and Electronics Privacy Data breaches 94

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. The law imposes a number of generally applicable principles.

Personal data 63

Personal data Marketing Communications Insurance 63

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

Security 98

Security Ransomware Cybersecurity Authentication 98

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Ransomware Government Blockchain 134

IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2018

Neil Hare-Brown of Cyber|Decider said that, in the last few months, he had investigated incidents at six private schools where insurance claims had been filed. Phishing scams are common within the education sector in general because of the amount of personal data that they store.

Phishing 58

Phishing Insurance Education Personal data 58

IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 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 their personal data. It added: “We are working with local law enforcement, GEMA, GBI, and insurance officials to recover the funds.

Phishing 115

Phishing e-Delivery Retail Insurance 115

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The GDPR was designed to harmonize data protection laws across Europe and to protect EU residents’ data privacy rights; and, its coming triggered significant privacy and data protection compliance activities amongst organizations doing business in the EU and working with the personal data of EU residents.

Personal data 68

Personal data GDPR Data Privacy Privacy 68

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2019

Data protection under the GDPR looks like this: there are data subjects (that’s individuals like you and me), and we own our own personal data. The GDPR provides EU residents with eight data subject rights , and everybody needs to be aware of them to make sure that organisations are collecting our data legally.

GDPR 77

GDPR Compliance Personal data Data breaches 77

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The finance and insurance (79%), information or communications (67%) and education (52%) sectors have the highest awareness of the GDPR. The finance and insurance sector is also the most likely to have put in place measures to comply with the GDPR, with 54% having done so.

GDPR 50

GDPR Compliance Insurance Personal data 50

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. Educating and training employees is a must-do in modern endpoint security. Crimeware and spyware. Other methods.

Ransomware 142

Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 142

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Of the businesses surveyed, those in the finance and insurance industries had the highest levels of awareness (79%), followed by information and communications (67%) and education (52%). And as these figures show many organisations still need to act to make sure the personal data they hold is secure.

GDPR 50

GDPR Government Education Compliance 50

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. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

Phishing 107

Phishing Passwords Ransomware Insurance 107

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 4, 2024

a. Which one does NOT require a minimum number of residents’ personal data for the “controller” to be in-scope for the law? The Consumer Data Privacy Act (SB 384), which goes into effect on October 1, 2024 (see § 14), can be found here: [link]. b. Which one makes most non-profits subject to its provisions?

Privacy 111

Privacy Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence e-Discovery 111

Reltio

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Twilio as an acquirer is not a surprise because Twilio is positioned as a Customer Engagement Platform for voice and messaging but did not have any coverage for data. Segment is a Customer Data Platform (CDP) player that focuses exclusively on person data. Why focusing only on 3 rd party data enrichment is a limitation .

Personal data 59

Personal data Marketing Customer Experience Retail 59

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We want businesses to ensure that their customers and future customers have consented to having their personal data processed, but we also need to ensure that the enormous potential for new data rights and freedoms does not open us up to new threats. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter?

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 GDPR) for a period of ~20 months. On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m

Security 52

Security GDPR Personal data Insurance 52

Data Protection Report

MARCH 7, 2024

Recall that the focus of the Executive Order was not on single transactions, but rather bulk transactions of Americans’ personal data. seems to be approving most transfers of personal data, except where those transfers meet the criteria described in the ANPRM.

Access 59

Access Military Compliance Personal data 59

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. Specific categories defined as personal information include.

GDPR 79

GDPR Privacy Sales Data breaches 79

eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2017

In 1980, in an effort to create a comprehensive data protection system throughout Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its “Recommendations of the Council Concerning Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Trans-Border Flows of Personal Data.”. PREPARATION TRAJECTORY.

GDPR 44

GDPR IT Personal data Privacy 44

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

Compliance is the foundation to effective data security. Underestimating the importance of training and education: Employees working with the KMaaS solution should be trained to use it effectively and securely. Failure to meet compliance with these requirements can result in legal and financial penalties.

Encryption 133

Encryption Compliance Cloud Authentication 133

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52