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Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Dissent

How many warnings would you give employees not to send work to their personal email accounts?  And why hasn’t a government agency deployed a software solution to prevent such transmissions?  Connor Jones reports: Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator…

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North Dakota Enacts Financial Data Security and Data Breach Notification Requirements

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Dissent

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 11, 2025, the North Dakota governor signed H.B. 1127 (the “Act”), which establishes new data security measures and breach notification obligations for financial corporations. Covered entities include those that are regulated by the North Dakota Department of Financial Institutions and exclude financial institutions, such as banks, and credit unions. Key requirements,…

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North Dakota Expands Data Security Requirements and Issues New Licensing Requirements for Brokers

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Dissent

A.J. S. Dhaliwal, Mehul N. Madia, and Beineng Zhang of SheppardMullin write: On April 11, North Dakota enacted HB 1127, overhauling its regulatory framework for financial institutions and nonbank financial service providers. The law amends multiple chapters of the North Dakota Century Code and creates a new data security mandate for financial corporations—a category that includes non-depository entities regulated…

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The PIPC Sanctions Woori Card for Data Breaches, Imposing KRW 13.45 billion

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Dissent

The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) held its seventh plenary meeting of 2025 and reached a decision to sanction Woori Card Co., Ltd. (Woori Card) for data breaches on March 26, 2025. Administrative sanctions by the PIPC are as follows: A penalty for violations (Gwajingguem) of KRW 13.45 billion; A publication order of sanction results…

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Ninth Circuit Reverses Probation Sentence for Paige Thompson

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Dissent

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin” of Breached.vc) isn’t the only person to have their sentence vacated and remanded for re-sentencing this year.  Paige Thompson, who was responsible for the massive Capital One hack in 2019, will also be re-sentenced. Eugene Volokh writes: A short excerpt from the 9,000-word U.S. v. Thompson, decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judge…

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Australia Sues FIIG Investment Firm in Cyber ‘Wake-Up Call’

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Dissent

Jayant Chakravarti reports: The Australian financial regulator has filed a lawsuit against FIIG Securities, accusing the leading investment and financing company of lacking adequate cybersecurity controls to stop a threat actor from stealing confidential personal information of 18,000 customers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it decided to sue Brisbane-headquartered FIIG Securities in Federal Court after…

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