Data breach at tax agency allowed companies to peek in on competitors’ data
A data mix-up on a state tax portal inadvertently made private data from about 16,500 business taxpayers viewable to other […]
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UK’s DPA publishes data security incident trends in Q3 2017
View the recent data security incidents that have been reported or notified to the UK’s Data protection authority – ICO, […]
Equifax says more private data was stolen in 2017 breach than first revealed
The credit rating agency said it didn’t originally announce “potential” data points, like tax identification numbers, that “may have been […]
41% of Canadian companies had sensitive data exposed
Report estimates that almost 87 per cent per cent of Canadian companies suffered at least one successful breach Source: Study […]
US Data Breaches Hit All-Time High
In 2017, ITRC counted 1,579 U.S. breaches, up 45 percent from 2016. That doesn’t reflect every U.S. data breach last […]
Swisscom data breach: 800,000 customers affected
Swisscom has revealed its customer data systems have been compromised and information belonging to roughly 800,000 customers has been stolen. […]
Data breach notification to become mandatory in Australia from 22 February 2018
Privacy compliance will become even more important for all companies in Australia now that the mandatory data breach notification scheme […]
Australia: Notifying individuals about an eligible data breach
When an entity experiences a data breach, its first step should be to contain the breach where possible and take […]
Breach Notification in the GDPR Era
Most American organizations, and many organizations operating in certain member state jurisdictions in the EU, have been dealing with breach […]
Incident response plans must be tested
A cyber incident response plan isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if it hasn’t been tested, a Canadian lawyer […]
New global cybersecurity center announced at Davos
The World Economic Forum announced plans Wednesday to launch a new coordinating group to counter emerging cybersecurity threats and help […]
Was 2017 the year of the breach?
This article is part of an ongoing series on privacy program metrics and benchmarking for incident response management, brought to […]