Some Danish breach statistics, as seen at Telecompaper: The Danish Data Authority said 2,780 incidents of privacy breaches were reported to it from 25 May, when reporting such breaches became mandatory, and the end of 2018. It said approximately two thirds of these cases concerned information sent to the wrong recipient. Four out of five…
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Report: Over 59,000 GDPR data breach notifications, but only 91 fines
Lucian Constantin reports: Since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May last year, EU organizations have reported almost 60,000 data breaches, but so far fewer than 100 fines have been issued by regulators. According to a new report by multinational law firm DLA Piper, the European Commission’s official statistics…
Possibility of data breach with mySalam health insurance scheme, Perkasa claims
Ida Nadirah Ibrahim reports: The government-run health insurance scheme for the bottom 40 per cent of workers raises the concern of data breach by Singaporean insurance company Great Eastern Takaful Berhad, Perkasa claimed today. Its information chief Nasrul Ali Hasan Abdul Latif said this is because the Finance Ministry has allowed Great Eastern Takaful to…
Huddle House payment card breach could potentially impact 300,000 customers – researchers
Georgia-based Huddle House opened in Decatur, Georgia, in 1964. Over the years, they have cultivated their brand as the kind of place where customers can get a good meal any time of the day, with their breakfast menu having become a big favorite. Huddle House currently has more than 350 franchises across the country. Last Friday,…
Hackers targeted universities with phishing attacks
The FBI has published more about a case that was previously reported on this site (the DOJ’s press release at the time can be found here). Today, the FBI wrote: Two men who were citizens of Nigeria, living in Malaysia, and conducting their crimes from behind computers likely assumed they were safe from the reach…
Two hacker groups responsible for 60 percent of all publicly reported hacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two hacker groups are behind 60% of all publicly reported cryptocurrency exchange hacks and are believed to have stolen around $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency, according to a report published last week by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. “On average, the hacks we traced from the two prominent hacking groups stole $90 million…