Hunton Privacy

APRIL 27, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Retail Law Blog , on April 26, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal on Article III standing grounds of a data breach class action predicated on an alleged increased risk of identity theft. McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs. , 19-4310, 2021 WL 1603808 (2d Cir.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 20, 2023

When privacy is at stake, SSI puts individuals back in control of their personal data. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an architecture for managing digital identities where individuals or organizations have full ownership and control over their identities and personal data.

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Privacy Blockchain Customer Experience Access 71

erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Educators can provide a more valuable learning experience and environment for students. With the use of data intelligence tools, educational institutes can provide teachers with a more holistic view of a student’s academic performance. Ethical computing becomes crucial. Incorporating blockchain technology into more industries.

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Analytics Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Big data 103

IT Governance

MAY 23, 2019

Things are certainly better than they were a year ago, but many organisations are still figuring out how they can satisfy the needs of individuals while also using their personal data to fulfil their business needs. How has the GDPR affected data breach reporting? This shouldn’t be a surprise.

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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. The next most frequent targets were software-as-a-service and webmail providers (20.5%) and e-commerce sites and retail stores (14.6%).

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 118

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

With double extortion attempts, crooks not only cripple organisations’ systems but also threaten to publish stolen data. The victim can now not simply rebuff the ransom demand, because they risked customers’ personal data being leaked online. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.

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Information Matters

JANUARY 26, 2019

HOW TIM COOK’S DATA BROKER REGISTRY MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK – Wired. 23 January 2019 “You might have bought a product from an online retailer—something most of us have done. But what the retailer doesn’t tell you is that it then turned around and sold or transferred information about your purchase to a ‘data broker,’” Cook wrote. “We

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Artificial Intelligence Retail Education Personal data 40

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. However, the least prepared sector is retail and wholesale, with only 13% of organisations having started. Preparing for the GDPR.

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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.

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Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Our research has highlighted that 86% of consumers would consider switching to another company if a breach were to occur, with 35% of consumers stating that a data breach under the GDPR would ‘definitely’ give them a negative perception of a company. Retail, Catering & Leisure. Yorkshire & The Humber. Industry sector.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

million) Wyoming Department of Health leaking data online (164,021) Maine government website displayed mental health patients’ confidential information (unknown) Israel: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street (unknown) Contact tracing data breach exposes health information of Pennsylvanians (72,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 114

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Articles 5(1) and 5(2) state that personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner, and that the data controller must be able to demonstrate that it is doing so. Articles 24(1) and 32(1) state that organisations must implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Injuries 101 : The first panel discussed negative outcomes that arise from unauthorized access to and misuse of consumers’ personal data. With respect to the consumer perspective, panelists noted that consumers view data as one aspect of the transaction and are willing to pay with information rather than money.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Observers expected the report to address the concept of privacy by design, the burdens placed on consumers to read and understand privacy notices and make privacy choices, the provision of individual access to personal data and the rights of consumers with respect to Internet tracking.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Sheila is a college-educated Walmart management associate, and delivering these gift boxes is a mandatory part of her company training. Strange how the world’s biggest retailer, a place she’s never shopped, seems to know her brand preferences for skin care and chocolate. ” Michelle smiles. “Great.

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e-Delivery Retail IT Education 65

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 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 includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 89

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Data breached: 2 PB. Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Known records breached Naz.API (likely belonging to multiple organisations) Source (New) Unknown Unknown Yes 70,840,771 VF Corporation Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Retail USA Yes 35,500,000 Pastelería Mozart Source (New) Hospitality Chile Yes 10,870,524 Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, Inc.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

NB65 hackers reportedly stole credit card data of QIWI clients (unknown) Fei protocol suffers an extensive security breach (unknown) South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach (13,088) The Calcasieu Parish School Board has been the victim of a cyber fraud incident (unknown).

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Consumers will be permitted to request that a business provide the consumer with a copy of his or her personal information in a readily usable format that can be transferred to another entity easily; and. Consumers will be able to request that a business not sell personal data to third parties. Right to Opt-Out.

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Privacy Sales Education Compliance 58

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de TB Paysign, Inc.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 70

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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Data breaches Education Manufacturing GDPR 59

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Consumers will be permitted to request that a business provide the consumer with a copy of his or her personal information in a readily usable format that can be transferred to another entity easily; and. Consumers will be able to request that a business not sell personal data to third parties. Right to Opt-Out.

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Privacy Sales Compliance Government 58

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Thailand’s Department of Older Persons breached, exposing almost 20 millio n personal data records The Department of Older Persons, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, suffered a data breach in which 19,718,687 rows or personal data was exposed.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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 breached: 2,632,275 people’s data. 204 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

GB Universidad de La Punta Source (New) Education Argentina Yes 47,562 (95,123 lines; probably half repeated) Unfallkasse Thüringen Source (New) Insurance Germany Yes 45 GB Protektor24.ru Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >400 GB Hafez Insurance Co. Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Australia Yes 95.19

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1,955,385 BerryDunn and Reliable Networks Source (New) Finance and IT services USA Yes 1,107,354 VISAV Limited Source (New) IT services UK Yes >1,000,000 Designed Receivable Solutions, Inc.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 83

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

TB LDLC Source (New) Retail France Yes 1,500,000 APROA Source (New) Professional services Argentina Yes 1,197,562 Petrus Resources Ltd. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 52

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Australian education provider TAFE NSW hit by phishing scam (30). British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000). Chinese hackers stole personal data from Indian healthcare website (6.8

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 111

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 22, 2018

.” Unsurprisingly, the health industry has developed an insatiable appetite for personal data about the individuals it covers. Put another way, adding personalized data to the insurance commons destroys the fabric of that commons. billion data-driven Truman Shows , to paraphrase social media critic Roger McNamee.

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Insurance Personal data Education Government 80

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Early adopters are trial-running Hyperledger blockchains in trade financing, in education and training programs and in supply chains for certain vertical industries. Blockchain ledgers are gaining traction in vertical industries like real estate, Big Pharma and food production and retailing, Wal-Mart being a pioneer of the latter.

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Blockchain Security Authentication Encryption 159

IT Governance

AUGUST 2, 2021

Data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 105