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November 11, 2022

Data Breaches Rise By 70% Globally in Q3 2022

Russia had the most breaches overall and France had the highest breach density.

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August 9, 2022

Former health adviser found guilty of illegally accessing patient records

A former health adviser has been found guilty of accessing medical records of patients without a valid legal reason.

August 9, 2022

Twitter Security Glitch May Have Unmasked Anonymous Accounts

Twitter on Friday disclosed a security glitch that could have allowed people to unmask account holders who tweeted under pen names.

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May 30, 2022

Data leaks on the increase, says Belgium’s Data Protection Authority

Over the past twelve months, reported cases of breached data in Belgium have gone up to 1,529.

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May 18, 2022

Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system’s use of web users’ info suggests Google and others are processing and passing people’s data.

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May 2, 2022

Dedalus Biologie fined 1.5 million euros for health data breach

CNIL imposed an administrative fine of 1.5 million euros on DEDALUS BIOLOGIE or health data breach.

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April 14, 2022

T-Mobile Secretly Bought Its Customer Data from Hackers to Stop Leak. It Failed.

After hackers targeted T-Mobile in August, T-Mobile hired a third-party firm that went undercover and bought exclusive access to the data.

April 12, 2022

Data Protection Authorities Propose GDPR Fines for Bank of Ireland and Danske Bank

Data Protection Authorities in Ireland and Denmark have proposed sizeable financial penalties for Bank of Ireland and Danske Bank for violations of the GDPR.

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March 16, 2022

Ireland fines Facebook €17 million for 2018 data breaches

The DPC has imposed a fine of €17m on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (formerly Facebook Ireland Limited).

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January 21, 2022

European data regulators issued EUR1.1 billion in GDPR fines

Nearly EUR1.1 billion (USD1.23 billion / GBP0.9 billion) of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of EU General Data Protection Regulation.