All Breaches and Vulnerabilities articles – Page 11
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NewsIrish DPC probes whether Facebook data leak falls under GDPR time frame
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is probing whether any of the data records of 533 million Facebook users published over the weekend were leaked after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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NewsDutch DPA fines Booking.com €475,000 for late reporting of data breach
The hotel booking firm Booking.Com has been fined €475,000 for failing to report a data breach to the authorities for 22 days
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WebinarA Post-Brexit Perspective: Managing Personal Data Breaches
Brexit will have a profound effect on how UK businesses address their privacy programs. Faced with new challenges for maintaining data transfers across Europe, organizations need a proactive plan in place to manage personal data breaches. Because of this, organizations are asking questions like when can you rely on the one-stop shop mechanism?
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NewsChinese bank fined for major data protection failings
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has ordered China Citic Bank to pay RMB4.5m ($690,000, €581,000) in penalties for what the regulator termed major violations of banking laws and regulations.
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ebookThe Bigger Picture - Privacy and Work in the New Normal
Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, home working whilst not unheard of, was still relatively uncommon, or in many cases limited to a few days per month.
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NewsSwiss DPA probes vaccine website for possible data security breach
The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (DPIC) in Switzerland is probing a possible data security breach by a website that allows people to voluntarily upload an electronic version of their vaccination record.
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AnalysisSeven key themes from PrivSec Global Day One
Here are the talking points and takeaways from Day One of PrivSec Global
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NewsVodafone handed Spain’s largest fine for breaking data law
Vodafone has been fined a total of €8.15m ($9.80m), the highest amount ever handed out by Spain’s data protection authority AEPD, for mishandling personal data during marketing campaigns between 2018 and 2020.
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NewsGerman football club Stuttgart fined for mishandling data
German football club VfB Stuttgart has been ordered to pay €300,000 ($361,000) by Baden-Wuerttemberg’s DPA for misusing data about its members. The club has also promised to educate young people about the importance of data protection.
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AnalysisBreaking the link between GDPR breach transparency and pain
The transparency requirements of GDPR are fuelling “micro-claims” for compensation, in addition to high-profile class action lawsuits. Stewart Room, preparing for his session at PrivSec Global, suggests the current system is creating perverse incentives and argues for a better solution
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NewsItalian government body fined for data breaches while investigating Covid-19 relief scandal
Italy’s social security and pensions agency Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS) has been ordered to pay €300,000 for contravening privacy protection laws when investigating politicians claiming state aid during the coronavirus crisis.
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NewsUS state accused of excessive data collection prior to breach
Lawmakers in Washington state have questioned the extent of information collected by the state’s Employment Security Department (ESD) for fraud-monitoring purposes.
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NewsUS mortgage lender agrees to pay $1.5m penalty after failing to report cyber breach
Residential Mortgage Services (RMS) has agreed with New York state’s Department of Financial Services to pay $1.5m after failing to report a cyber breach.
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NewsMalaysia Airlines passengers’ data compromised for almost a decade
Personal details of Malaysia Airlines’ Enrich frequent flyer programme members were exposed in a security breach via a third-party IT service provider lasting from March 2010 through to June 2019, it has emerged.
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NewsData of 3.3m cash-loan app users ‘sold online’
Email addresses and other information about 3.3m clients of money-lending app Cashalo in the Philippines is being offered for sale on the dark web, a preliminary investigation by the Philippine National Privacy Commission (NPC) has shown.
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WebinarManaging Complex DSARs in the Enterprise
The number and complexity of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) received from both customers and employees has increased over the past couple of years, and some fear Covid-related redundancies will further drive up the numbers.
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NewsSecond North American university hacked
Personally identifiable information of students and others connected with the Simon Fraser University (SFU) in western Canada have leaked in a cyberattack.
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NewsProbe launched after ‘data of 102m Brazilians leaked’
The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has confirmed it is investigating the leakage of personal data from telephone companies, following media reports of a huge personal data breach.
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NewsUS university suffers data breach
The names and social security numbers of around 9,800 students, alumni and applicants of private research Syracuse University in New York state have leaked.
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NewsClubhouse app reviews data protection practices following concerns about potential Chinese government access
High-profile US app Clubhouse has pledged to review its data protection procedures after academics warned it contained security flaws that left users’ data at risk of being accessed by the Chinese authorities.
