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KPMG Mexico Could Be Facing Fine of Up to $1.6 Million For Huge Data Leak Blunder

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dissent

Jason Bramwell reports: Mexican authorities said KPMG Mexico could be fined as much as 30 million pesos (about $1.57 million) for exposing the confidential payroll data of employees at 41 of its clients, which was housed in an unsecured database that wound up on the Internet. According to El Economista, the National Institute of Transparency,…

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Docker Hub hack exposed data of 190,000 users

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Docker Hub, the official repository for Docker container images, has announced a security breach on late Friday night. The breach came to light after the company started emailing customers about a security incident that took place a day earlier on April 25. “On Thursday, April 25th, 2019, we discovered unauthorized access to…

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Safeguard your network and customer credentials: Tips from the latest FTC data security case

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dissent

One of the other enforcement actions the FTC has taken stems from the ClixSense breach in 2016. Lesley Fair of the FTC writes: Suppose a lunch companion says, “I think there’s something wrong with this tuna salad.” To determine if the problem is tuna not to their taste vs. tuna gone bad, would you scarf…

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Greek DPA Issues EUR 30,000 Fine For Data Protection Violation by Hellenic Petroleum S.A.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dissent

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 15, 2019, the Greek Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) fined Hellenic Petroleum S.A. EUR 20,000 for unlawful processing of personal data and EUR 10,000 for failing to adopt appropriate data security measures. Hellenic Petroleum S.A. had engaged a vendor to conduct a study on its behalf. The study was exposed…

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i-Dressup and a data security mess-up

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

Lesley Fair of the FTC writes: Kids love to play dress-up, but parents wouldn’t want them rummaging through the attic or climbing to the top shelf of the wardrobe without permission and proper supervision. The i-Dressup.com website offered users – including children – a virtual way to play dress-up and design clothes without those potential…

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Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: The security sector is waking up to the insidious threat posed by software supply chain attacks, where hackers don’t attack individual devices or networks directly, but rather the companies that distribute the code used by their targets. Now researchers at security firms Kaspersky and ESET have uncovered evidence that the same hackers…

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