Sentences with phrase «on data breaches»

We've all seen the news reports on data breaches in retail.

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse keeps tabs on data breaches and provides some examples of how personal data gets into the hands of bad guys.

In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it — people are terrible at creating passwords!

As part of its oversight of data breach reporting requirements under the Act, the OPC will receive reports on data breaches posing a real risk of significant harm, request data breach records of organizations, at its own discretion, and provide advice and guidance to organizations as to how to comply with their breach reporting obligations under the Act.

The team has also been particularly active on data breaches and cyber-crime and is well - regarded for its work on redress schemes where the FCA has been unhappy about the customer experience.

This is particularly ironic given the OPC's emphasis on data breaches and the need for the private sector to disclose breaches as quickly as possible.

This means attorneys and law firms need a plan, usually called an incident response plan (IRP), which often is focused on data breaches, but «incidents» can refer to ransomware, attempted hacks, an insider accessing data without authorization, or a lost or stolen laptop or mobile device.

They should also use their social media channels to communicate concerns on data breaches and other business slipups.

Mulligan, the interim CEO, has served as the company's chief spokesman on the data breach, holding up well under scrutiny during Congressional hearings.

Regulators, in other words, can impose much more pain on data breach defendants than consumers suing in private class actions.

The government has also sent five questions to Cambridge Analytics for responses on the data breach.

As discussed in our previous chapter on data breach nightmares, they have taken a variety of forms, ranging from phishing scams and social engineering attacks (e.g., using e-mail to trick attorneys to visit a malicious web site or to be lured into fraudulent collection schemes for foreign «clients») to sophisticated technical exploits that result in long term intrusions into a law firm's network to steal information.

Similar in concept to GRS, the DLC provides Clients with access to advisory services on data breach reporting requirements.

So far the one statute and one bill on data breach notification in Canada do not prescribe standards of care for secure storage.

I noted the study in this blog (The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Study on data breach fallout), and noted that there was nothing in the original about its methodologies.

He said government had issued show cause notices to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook on the data breach issue.

Amidst controversies surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook on the data breach issue, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said the government would not tolerate any unauthorised use of data for abuse or to influence elections.

Facebook has over 20 crore users in the country and the Indian government last month had shot - off notices to both Facebook and Analytica on the data breach issue.

Read Ravi Shankar Prasad warns Facebook on data breach: Can even summon Mark Zuckerberg

This post will focus on the data breach question — whether unauthorized access to personal information, in the absence of hacking, qualifies as a «data breach» for the purposes of state data breach notification laws, and potentially Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data security enforcement.

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Not exact matches

«You can absolutely win your customers back, but it's what you do in the immediate aftermath of the data breach that'll determine whether they want to have a relationship with you later on.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin answered a question on the monster Equifax data breach at Delivering Alpha in New York Tuesday.

On February 26, 2018, post-market, Fresenius announced that it is conducting an independent investigation, using external experts, into alleged breaches of U.S. Food and Drug Administration data integrity requirements relating to product development at Akorn.

While data breaches at big corporations continue to make headlines, cyber attacks against small businesses are quietly on the rise.

While the media glommed on to a few snafus — such as T - Mobile's Sidekick service losing subscribers» data when its cloud supplier's backup systems failed — it's not the number of breaches and failures (which is small) but what it says about providers» practices that is worrisome.

Facebook, which has maintained that the data was obtained not through a security breach but rather through mishandling by a third - party research app that worked with Cambridge Analytica, saw its stock plummet as much as 8 percent on Monday.

CBA's announcement, which was made in a YouTube video by a senior bank executive a day after BuzzFeed Australia reported the data breach, puts further pressure on Australian banks already reeling from revelations of widespread misconduct in a judicial inquiry.

Senator John Thune, a Republican who chairs the Commerce Committee, asked Mayer on Wednesday why it took three years to identify the data breach or properly gauge its size.

In June, the US Federal Reserve released information on more than 50 data breaches from the past four years.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.

Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey - based medical laboratory company, disclosed a data breach affecting about 34,000 people on Monday.

Three senior executives including the company's chief financial officer sold $ 1.8 million in shares three days after the company learned on July 29 hackers had breached personal data for up to 143 million Americans.

Just look at any of the major data breaches that have walloped industry and the public sector recently: Target, Chase, Anthem, Sony, the Office of Personnel Management, and so on.

Update your contracts to place certain GDPR obligations on your suppliers and contractors, such as the need to notify you if their data is breached.

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The publication said that the researchers reported the data breach and spammers to law enforcement, but that the researchers «can not discuss those elements, because the agencies involved can not comment on pending or ongoing investigations.»

Yahoo general counsel Ronald Bell has resigned after an independent review of two major data breaches found that the «legal team had sufficient information to warrant substantial further inquiry in 2014, and they did not sufficiently pursue it,» according to a Yahoo regulatory filing on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

A senior Yahoo executive addressed a massive security incident on Wednesday, offering additional details about a breach that saw hackers steal personal data from more than 500 million customer accounts in late 2014.

(Plus, there was the Susan Fowler letter, the Waymo lawsuit, and the data breach, all of which deserve their own separate slides — more on those scandals to come.)

Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both retail chains, released a statement Sunday about the data breach, noting that it does not impact shoppers who bought items on digital platforms.

The data breach comes on the heels of other high - profile hacking attacks to hit other major U.S. stores and businesses.

As more and more businesses worry about data protection, breaches and security (while cybercrime and DDOS attacks on the rise), it's no wonder all businesses are flocking to the protective arms of IT support companies.

«We're looking into some unusual activity that might indicate a possible payment data breach and we're working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,» the company said on its corporate website.

Either way, the privacy rules were enacted on a limited basis in January, while a provision that would generally require ISPs to «engage in reasonable data security practices» in the event of security breaches was set to go into legal effect on March 2.

Anthem, the second largest health insurance company in the U.S., announced a massive data breach on Feb. 5.