COMB – Biggest Data Breach of All Time Explained
More than 3.2 billion unique pairs of plain text emails and passwords have been leaked for free. This makes it the largest compilation ever.
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10 GDPR fines and what to learn from them
I selected 10 from just December 2020 and January 2021 which were biggest or most interesting.
45% of Americans have had their personal information exposed in a data breach
Over 4,500 data breaches have been made public since 2005, and 45% of Americans have had their personal information exposed in a data breach in the last five years.
66% of Workers Risk Breaching GDPR by Printing Work-Related Docs at Home
20% of home workers admit to printing confidential employee info including payroll, addresses and medical information.
Personal data stolen from Dutch coronavirus track-and-trace programme
Personal information of a large number of people who participated in the Netherlands’ coronavirus track-and-trace programme has been leaked, the Dutch health authorities (GGD) said.
Australian government ordered to compensate asylum seekers for privacy breaches
The Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner in Australia, Angelene Falk, has found the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 asylum seekers by mistakenly releasing their personal information.
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Look Up Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
The person selling access to the service claims it has data on 500 million Facebook users.
Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private user information with advertisers
The company has come under scrutiny for its data security practices in the past.
Data stolen from Scottish regulator in cyberattack published online
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) earlier this month revealed at least 4,000 files containing 1.2GB were stolen in an ongoing ransomware attack that began on Christmas Eve.
EDPB Publishes Guidelines on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification
European Data Protection Board released draft Guidelines on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification.
India just had the Biggest Medical Records Breach Ever
In a data breach unprecedented in its scale in India, a large multi-speciality private hospital in Kerala had its complete patient records from the last five years
BA facing potential ‘£800m’ lawsuit over data breach
British Airways (BA) is potentially facing the largest privacy class-action lawsuit in UK history over its mass customer data breach that affected 400,000 people.