Arthur Shay of Shay and Partners writes: In September 2019 a landmark appeal court decision found an online information service provider liable for consequential damages of data theft. In April 2017 subscribers and users of one of Taiwan’s most popular box office websites, EZding, reported numerous data theft incidents. EZding rejected the complaints about its…
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Companies That Experience a Data Breach Will Underperform the Stock Market Over the Long Run
Nicole Lindsey reports: Data breaches at the world’s largest corporations are becoming a commonplace affair, but are investors on Wall Street really paying attention? A new study from UK-based pro-consumer website Comparitech looked at the recent stock market performance of 28 different companies that recently suffered a massive data breach of some kind (defined as…
CISA Releases Cyber Readiness Recommendations for Small Business
Caleb Skeath and Inside Privacy write: Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released a set of cyber readiness recommendations for small businesses. The recommendations, which CISA developed in collaboration with small businesses and state and local governments, are intended to assist smaller organizations in implementing organizational cybersecurity practices. While…
Data leak of police records possible: Kerala Opposition leaders caution state government
Express News Service reports: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government’s move to allow the IT division of Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS) access to sensitive police data, as part of a passport verification project, came in for heavy flak from the Opposition in the Assembly on Wednesday. Alleging that the move would pave way for largescale…
Exclusive: More than 90,000 patient billing files from an alcohol and drug addiction treatment network exposed online
Update: On December 2, Sunshine Behavioral Health reported this incident to HHS as impacting 3500 patients. They also ticked the box for Business Associate. Update 2: On January 23, 2020, ID Experts submitted a copy of their notification to patients to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. Another day, another leak. In this case, an error…
Indian education institutions hit hard by hackers: Report
IANS reports: Education domain is one of the most “at-risk” industries in India, with the sector accounting for more than 30 per cent of cyber threats targeting enterprises in the country between July and September 2019, a new report from Seqrite, the enterprise arm of IT security firm Quick Heal Technologies, said on Wednesday. Other…