The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) changed the game. Legacy filing systems were not built to keep track of the personal data of specific individuals primarily to be in compliance with the many data protection regulations popping up around the world. Less can be more.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unexpected Revocation Comes After Years of Tech Industry Criticism The government of India withdrew a long-anticipated personal data protection bill from Parliament. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to instead introduce a comprehensive framework of global standard laws including digital privacy laws

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

New attack by Anonymous Italy: personal data from ministries and police have been released online. As announced, the three groups that coordinate the operation “Black Week” have released also today new data from their raids on online sites and databases. The site of Fratelli d’Italia, a post-fascist party, has been defaced.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

First, forensic traces showed that Serbian police used a Cellebrite tool to unlock and extract data from his device without informing him, obtaining legal consent, or disclosing the searchs purpose.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2021

Estonia ‘s police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to be the hacker who stole 286K ID scans from the government systems. Estonian police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to have stolen 286,438 belonging to Estonians citizens from the government systems. or take a new document photo. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

The type of documents exposed includes business licenses, residential records such as deeds, tax information, and resumes for applicants to government jobs. Much of this information is supposed to be only accessible by the government and the citizens, meaning someone could potentially defraud an individual by posing as a government official.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2023

A researcher recently discovered that a Bangladesh government website leaks the personal data of citizens. The researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovered a Bangladeshi government website that was leaking the personal information of millions of Bangladesh citizens.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Further analysis of the URLs revealed that a short link takes a victim to another URL which already demonstrates their personal data, such as the phone number, first or/and last name, and sometimes an email address, and used for redirects to fake websites masquerading as a local media outlet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 1, 2022

On June 1, 2022, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”) entered into force after three years of delays. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the Thai government issued royal decrees to extend the compliance deadline to June 1, 2022. . Breaches may result in fines between THB500,000 (U.S.$14,432)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. Below are the attacks reported by Emsisoft: 105 local governments. ” The ransomware attack against local governments resulted in data theft in at least 27 of the 105 incidents (26 percent). .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on local servers. Roskomnadzor is attempting to oblige the IT giants, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google to move data related to Russian citizens to servers in Russia allowing the Government to monitor them.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2025

Port of Seattle is notifying 90,000 people of a data breach after personal data was stolen in a ransomware attack in August 2024. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

The data acquired by the intelligence agency can reveal the websites visited by the US citizens and what apps they use. Wyden called on the US government to order intelligence agencies to stop buying personal data from Americans that has been obtained illegally by data brokers.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Defense Department agency that's responsible for providing secure communications and IT equipment for the president and other top government officials says a data breach of one of its systems may have exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Victims Still Learning Their Personal Data Was Illegally Accessed, Copied in 2021 A ransomware attack on the Irish healthcare system in 2021 has cost the government 80 million euros in damages and counting.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2021

. “The Communication and Information Ministry has taken anticipatory measures to avert the spread of the data further by cutting off access to the links to download the personal data,” Permadi said. At the time of this writing it is not clear how the attackers have gained access to the citizens’ data.

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Data Protector

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The EU’s draft Data Governance Act is designed to facilitate the greater sharing of non-Personal data within the EU. Such big data ought to provide new insights and benefit the lives of EU citizens, the EU thinking goes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach. reads the press release published by the agency.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With this principle approach, DSPM treats data security as a priority, aligning itself with the critical security standards and frameworks and further addressing the regulatory requirements of current and emerging data and AI laws that necessitate implementing personal and sensitive personal data protection measures.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. The PDP Draft Law is now sitting with the House of Representatives and other concerned government officials. General personal data v.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Uber €290 million ($324 million) for allegedly failing to comply with the EU data protection regulation GPDR when transferring the personal data of European taxi drivers to the U.S. calling the violation “very serious.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2022

“One source said that the phone was so heavily compromised that it has now been placed in a locked safe inside a secure Government location.” “This is extremely serious – it shows the severity of the threats from countries that would do us harm and why cyber-security needs to be taken so seriously by everyone in Government.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On 11 August 2023, India’s long-awaited law governing data protection – the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ( DPDP Act ) – received the President’s assent and was published in the official gazette the following day. data subjects, using the GDPR terminology) located within India.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 5, 2023

19-Year-Old José Huerta Allegedly Hacked A Government File Transfer System Spanish National Police arrested Friday a teenager hacker who allegedly stole the sensitive data of more than half a million taxpayers from the national revenue service and boasted in an online podcast about having access to personal data of 90 percent of the population.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

The compromised information includes the personal data of regular and reserve personnel and some recently retired veterans. SSCL is a joint venture between the British government and a private tech firm, it provides services to the Home Office, Cabinet Office and Ministry of Justice. ” states the BBC.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Just recently, the group has published a stolen data allegedly belonging to the Mexican Government which still remains available for sale today, and possibly becoming the first cybercriminal group that has touched a major state in Latin America on such a level. Mexican Government data is published for sale.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2024

Yesterday afternoon I was advised by a commercial health information organisation that it was the victim of a large-scale ransomware data breach incident. “In October last year, the ACCC granted authorisation for MediSecure to transfer all publicly- funded electronic prescriptions and data to eRx.” ” reported ABC.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. According to Bloomberg News, the exposed data includes email addresses, mobile phone numbers, invoices, copies of identity documents and personal chat transcripts. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

Swedish data protection watchdog warns companies against using Google Analytics due to the risk of surveillance operated by the US government. The Swedish data protection watchdog warned businesses against using Google Analytics due to the risk of surveillance carried out by the US government.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Leaksmas: On Christmas Eve, multiple threat actors released substantial data leaks, Resecurity experts reported. On Christmas Eve, Resecurity protecting Fortune 100 and government agencies globally, observed multiple actors on the Dark Web releasing substantial data leaks.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ukrainian government attributes the recent attacks against tens of Ukrainian government websites to Belarusian APT group UNC1151. The government of Kyiv attributes the defacement of tens of Ukrainian government websites to Belarusian APT group UNC1151 , the Reuters agency reported in exclusive.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 26, 2024

On 16 July 2024, the Malaysian Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament) passed the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024 (the PDP Bill ). Data processors will also be potentially subject to the direct imposition of penalties for breach of their obligations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

“Classified information is not affected, but personal data of nearly half of the members of the Sret is potentially compromised.” ” In August 2023, Mandiant researchers reported that China-linked threat actors breached government organizations worldwide with attacks exploiting Barracuda ESG zero-day.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

On 18 July 2023, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“ PDPC ”) issued for public consultation a set of proposed guidelines for the use of personal data in AI recommendation and decision systems (“ Proposed Guidelines ”). The public consultation is open until 31 August 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Intelligence leaked personal data belonging to 620 alleged Russian FSB agents. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Intelligence has leaked the alleged personal data of 620 Russian FSB officers. said Barratt. ” reported Infosecurity.

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