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 Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. The FTC considers that ‘reasonable security’ doesn’t mean ‘perfect security.’ Equifax was not special in this regard.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. According to the Ponemon Institute and IBM, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.24 But there’s a catch: Insurers are going to carefully assess your cybersecurity controls before writing any policy, and there are limits to coverage. Cyber Insurance is Booming.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with George Wrenn, founder and CEO of CyberSaint Security , a cybersecurity software firm that plays directly in this space. Then you have the folks whose security programs have run out of steam and they’re looking for a way to prove that they’re doing due care,” Wrenn said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits. These days, ID.me

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It was clear most readers had no idea these new and more invasive requirements were being put in place at the IRS and other federal agencies (the Social Security Administration also is steering new signups to ID.me). These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data? ” Login.gov is run by the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

1, 2023 – Guardz , the cybersecurity company securing and insuring SMEs, today disclosed the existence of a Hidden Virtual Network Computing (hVNC) malware targeting macOS devices. This combination of stealth, persistence, data theft, and remote control makes the malware a very potent tool in the hands of malicious actors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage. With cyber attacks amounting to a question of when and not if, cyber insurance becomes crucial for ensuring business continuity and mitigating the business impact of attacks – should they occur. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The order also, in Section IX, set forth data destruction requirements and a data retention policy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2023

CIAM in insurance: A unified, secure user experience with a single login madhav Fri, 05/26/2023 - 07:33 In recent years, the insurance industry has transformed from a singularly focused entity to a multi-brand or multi-service type of business. Adding value to the user experience (a top priority for 59% of insurers) 2.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 1, 2023

In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy of artificial intelligence and its impact on insurance. Soon after, AI’s capabilities extended to Speech and Natural Language processing, such as with IBM Watson, and for Image Recognition, which is now ubiquitously used for unlocking phones and other biometric security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Evolution of Cloud Security: From Shared Responsibility to Shared Fate. These were just some of the major facets of cloud transformation that are creating challenges for data security that I discussed with Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, Google Cloud in a recent Thales Security Sessions podcast moderated by Neira Jones.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The data began leaking in April 2024, and by summer, it was being sold on the dark web for $3.5 The stolen information included full names, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of millions of U.S., Perhaps the time has come to get rid of using our social security numbers.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, which is the Chinese regulatory and administrative authority for the insurance sector, issued the Interim Measures for the Management of the Authenticity of Information of Life Insurance Customers (the “Measures”).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 18, 2023

SB 5’s protections would apply to residents of Indiana who act for a personal, family or household purpose, with express exemption for individuals acting in a commercial or employment context.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The man is responsible for the cyber attacks that in 2022 hit the Australian insurance provider Medibank. “ In November 2022, Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. What was leaked? Drug prescription listings).

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

In its consent order , the Department noted that the cybersecurity events had caused the exposure of a substantial amount of sensitive personal data belonging to Carnival’s customers, including those residing in New York. NYDFS also found that Carnival had failed to implement basic protocols to prevent data breaches.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 8, 2023

In my previous post , I described the different capabilities of both discriminative and generative AI, and sketched a world of opportunities where AI changes the way that insurers and insured would interact. Usage risk—inaccuracy The performance of an AI system heavily depends on the data from which it learns.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

million fine to Interserve Group Limited for failing to keep employee personal data secure, which violates Article 5(1)(f) and Article 32 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), during the period of March 2019 to December 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2024

MediSecure is a company that provides digital health solutions, particularly focusing on secure electronic prescription delivery services in Australia. Threat actors gained access to the personal and health information of an undisclosed number of individuals. ” reads the statement published by the company. ” reported ABC.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The vulnerability also exposed login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database, Upguard says.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

On May 10, 2022, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring , after the law was previously passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in April. Connecticut is now the fifth state to enact a consumer privacy law.

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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. While Amazon offers the necessary tools to secure their services, Inova has not implemented these measures properly.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The company notified via mail hundreds of individuals that were impacted by the security breach and that that have had their personal data exposed in the attack. . Cox Media Group discovered the security breach the same day of the initial intrusion and immediately took down systems offline to avoid the propagation of the threat.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 24, 2022

Similar to the CPA and VCDPA, the UCPA contains exemptions for covered entities, business associates and protected health information subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), and financial institutions or personal data subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. “Based on VF’s preliminary analysis from its ongoing investigation, VF currently estimates that the threat actor stole personal data of approximately 35.5 million individual consumers.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

All data is confidential, contains trade secrets. - 30 Gb user data - production line settings - repository with equipment configures - 26 Gb machine operation logs - 1.2 Gb - NDA The group published a set of files as proof of the security breach and threatens leak all the stolen data if the victim will not pay the ransom. . -

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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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing. New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. In recent years, costly breaches and evolving data security concerns have bubbled up to a board level agenda item.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. Affected customers have now been informed.

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