But we all know the horror
stories of data breaches and what happens when your information gets compromised.
I think LastPass is probably good as well, but we all know the horror
stories of data breaches and what happens when your information gets compromised and the reality is that it will happen and it probably won't be your fault, it will probably be someone else who gets their data compromised and you just happen to be an innocent bystander, but there's only so much you can do to protect yourself but the single most important thing you can do is to have strong unique password across all of your sites and it's a real pain to do that unless you're using a password manager, so just to have that information stored somewhere else.
With continuing
stories of data breaches and misuse, this regulation is a relief to many consumers who felt their privacy was being invaded.
Not exact matches
Additionally, as this
story was publishing, the AP reported, citing unnamed sources, that the Office
of Personnel Management suffered a second, separate
data breach of security clearance
data that has exposed the sensitive background information
of as many as 2.9 million military and intelligence personnel, including members
of the National Security Agency, CIA, military special operations.
(In 7th and 16th paragraphs, this version
of the
story corrects to show that the previous Experian
data breach began before Experian purchased the company in 2012, not that it occurred in 2014.)
It seems like every quarter there's a new
story about how hackers
breached a major company's cyber-defenses and stole millions
of pieces
of highly sensitive
data.
Interviewed by Jennifer Brown
of Canadian Lawyer InHouse magazine for a
story relating the Yahoo
data security
breach, and governance implications, March 6, 2017.
Record hurricanes,
data breaches, colliding neutron stars and drug epidemics — the most important science
stories of the year
No
story in the credit realm came close to the news in September that an Equifax
data breach exposed the personal information
of 145.5 million.
Sure, some recent FOIA suits by political groups, particularly one in Virginia
of Mann's emails when we was a professor there, border on harassment; but I have yet to meet any scientist who, hearing the
story of Mann's resistance to providing replication
data, has any sympathy for such a clear
breach of the scientific process.
Hardly a week goes by without a breaking
story on the release
of the personal information
of large number
of people due to a cyber or
data breach at a major corporation or online service.
Faced with misleading press
stories, the ICO has been addressing misconceptions about the GDPR by publishing myth busting blogs, including on the new requirement to report serious
breaches of personal
data...
Even though PIPEDA does not have mandatory
data breach notification requirements yet, the privacy commissioner has always encouraged notification if the
breach is significant and companies want to get ahead
of the
story by notifying relevant regulators before an individual makes a complaint or the media breaks the
story — if only to better shape the narrative.
The almost daily barrage
of news
stories about
data breaches and ransomware attacks has corporate leaders feeling uneasy and compelled to take urgent action to contain risk.
While researching this
story, CSO uncovered in the
breached data thousands
of work email addresses and old passwords belonging to current and former employees
of IDG (CSO's parent company), as well as IDG affiliates.
Whatever the case may be, this is the part
of the
story where there was an actual
breach; not
of Facebook's internal
data but
of Facebook's
data sharing policies.
Facebook's first response when the
story broke on Saturday was to quibble over news organizations» use
of the term
data breach.
Shorty after the
data leak
story became public, Facebook's lawyers claimed The Observer was making «false and defamatory» allegations and denied the harvesting
of information was a «
data breach», as users had voluntarily downloaded the app.