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NewsChina adopts new privacy law
China’s legislature has approved an updated law on personal information protection, to take effect on 1 November.
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JPMorgan Chase warns customers of data breach
US banking and financial services company has alerted its customers of a technical glitch that may have exposed the personal data of its customers.
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Brooklyn Tech students uncover data breach
Students at Brooklyn Technical High School unintentionally discovered a data breach within the education department’s Google Drive.
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Global AML fines fallen by 50% in 1H 2021
In the first half of 2021, global fines for anti-money laundering and data privacy compliance violations fell by over 50% year on year, but could swiftly rebound as financial crime continues, according to Fenergo.
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Forty jailed in UAE for money laundering and fraud
Abu Dhabi Criminal Court has imprisoned 40 men after they conned investors into putting money into a digital trading platform and converting their clients’ funds into a fake digital currency called Foin so the investors could not get their money back.
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US hospitals struck by ransomware
A ransomware attack has forced hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia to work from paper records turn away patients.
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Poly Network offers job to $604m hacker
Cryptocurrency service provider Poly Network says it is cordially inviting cyber-attacker ‘Mr White Hat’ – a term used for ethical hackers who search for vulnerabilities in organisations’ IT systems which could expose them to attacks – to be the company’s chief security advisor.
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US terror watchlist leaked online
A misconfigured server has exposed a secret watchlist of suspected terrorists online.
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Pearson settles fallout from cyber-attack with SEC
Education material publisher Pearson has agreed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US to pay $1m (€849,000) to settle charges it misled investors following a cyber intrusion, and had inadequate disclosure controls and procedures.
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Privacy suit over Thomson Reuters database allowed to proceed
A judge has ruled a lawsuit in California alleging Thomson Reuters breached individuals’ privacy rights can move on to the discovery phase of court hearings.
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Indiana state notifies residents about contact tracing data breach
The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers of a data breach involving responses collected from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey.
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Money laundering fight increasingly goes high tech
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are gaining serious momentum in anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, according to a survey.
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Sendvalu fined for breaking money laundering rules
Malta’s financial regulator FIAU has ordered the island’s subsidiary of Swiss money transfer company Sendvalu to pay €502,000 ($591,000) for failing to comply with money laundering laws.
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Pause before swapping data for drinks, suggests privacy boss
Customers should think twice about handing over personal data when ordering food and drink via their mobile phones, according to Suzanne Gordon, director of data protection at the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK.
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Hamburg DPA warns council about Zoom use
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Information Freedom has officially warned the city’s senate chancellery about using the on-demand version of Zoom video-conferencing.
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Colonial Pipeline reports data breach surfaces after ransomware attack
The largest fuel pipeline in the US, is sending notification letters to nearly 6,000 individuals that may have had their personal information compromised by the DarkSide ransomware attack that hit its network in May.
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Half of US hospitals disconnected their networks due to ransomware
Under half (48%) of US hospitals have reported shutting down its networks in the past six months due to ransomware, according to new report from Philips and CyberMDX.
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T-Mobile investigates claims of data breach
An investigation has been launched into a claim that the personal data of over 100 million T-Mobile customers has been compromised.
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Accenture caught in LockBit 2.0 ransomware attack
Global consulting firm Accenture has been targeted by the LockBit ransomware group, which is said to be threatening to publish encrypted data it has taken from the company.
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UN experts urge halt to spread of monitoring technology
A group of UN experts has repeated its call on all states to impose a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology until they have put in place robust regulations which guarantee it complies with international human rights standards.
