Aastha Singal reports: With the urban civilization turning to smart technology solutions to increase operational efficiency and share information, cybersecurity has become a major concern. To keep pace with the tech-savvy generation, a need to establish a formal cybersecurity framework in smart cities has risen. To reduce the evident cyber risks, a cyber-resilient and trusted…
Month: March 2019
Telugu Desam Party in dock over data theft, FIR registered against four
ANI reports: Police have registered a case after a complaint was received against the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for allegedly using the people’s data illegally through ‘Sevamitra App‘ to advance the party’s electoral prospects in the coming Lok Sabha polls in the state. Police have named four persons in the case. The first information report…
UK: Former council officer fined for emailing CVs of rival job applicants to his partner
From the Information Commissioner’s Office on February 27: A former senior local government officer has been prosecuted for passing the personal information of rival job applicants to his partner. Kevin Bunsell was employed by Nuneaton and Bedworth District Council in Warwickshire as its Head of Building Control and had been trained in data protection law….
IL: Suburban man charged with ID theft stemming from 2015 UChicago data breach
There’s a follow-up to a University of Chicago hack first reported on this site in 2015, when DataBreaches.net tried to alert the university to a hack and partial data dump claimed by Carbonic. Fox32 reports: A Naperville man was charged this week with stealing the identity of a west suburban couple after their personal information…
More than 5 months after ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group still notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients
More than 5 months after a ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group is still in the process of notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. Should they even have to, or has the government imposed too burdensome a responsibility on entities that experience attacks to individually notify patients when there is no evidence of…
Republicans, Democrats Offer Different Views on Preemption During Senate Privacy Hearing
James Strawbridge of Covington & Burling writes: At a February 27, 2019 hearing on “Privacy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States,” Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee offered different perspectives on whether new federal privacy legislation should preempt state privacy laws. Chairman Roger Wicker…