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January 27, 2021

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.

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January 22, 2021

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.

January 20, 2021

EDPB Publishes Guidelines on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification

European Data Protection Board released draft Guidelines on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification.

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January 19, 2021

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

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January 19, 2021

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.

January 11, 2021

WhatsApp private chat groups get EXPOSED again on Google search

WhatsApp has suffered an embarrassing privacy breach, with its private chat groups being indexed on Google’s search engine.

December 25, 2020

Microsoft Confirms Its Network Was Breached With Tainted SolarWinds Updates

Microsoft confirmed that its network was among the thousands infected with tainted software updates from SolarWinds.

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December 9, 2020

Class action suit launched against Dell after data breach led to years of scam calls

A proposed class action suit has been launched against Dell Technologies on behalf of thousands of Canadians whose personal information was compromised in a data breach.

December 5, 2020

Twitter data breach decision due on December 17

Despite “very divergent views” between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision […]

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November 23, 2020

799 data breaches notified by Ireland’s Government departments in 2019

The Department of Social Protection was responsible for nearly half the data protection breaches notified by Government departments across the […]

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November 16, 2020

Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over personal data breach

Ticketmaster has been fined £1.25m for failing to keep the personal data of millions of customers secure. The online events […]

November 11, 2020

Twitter could face its first GDPR penalty within days

European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in […]

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