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UK: Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance fined over data law breach

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Dissent

Oliver Wright reports: The Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and an insurance company run by its founder Arron Banks are facing fines of £120,000 for data protection breaches. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is to fine Leave.EU £15,000 for unlawfully using Eldon Insurance customers’ details to send 300,000 political marketing messages, and a further £45,000 for…

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Hacker Who Stole $5 Million By SIM Swapping Gets 10 Years in Prison

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A college student who stole more than $5 million in cryptocurrency by hijacking the phone numbers of around 40 victims pleaded guilty and accepted a plea deal of 10 years in prison, Motherboard has learned. Joel Ortiz accepted the plea deal last week, Erin West, the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara…

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Vale é hackeada e documentos mostram como empresa lida com acidentes (Vale is hacked; documents show how company handles accidents)

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Dissent

The following is a Google translation of a news report by Felipe Payao: The Brazilian multinational mining company Vale was invaded and supposedly confidential internal documents were withdrawn and leaked by invaders. Hackers would have taken advantage of an open software toolbox for team collaboration to retrieve minutes and extract security incidents and incidents around the…

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Dutch DPA Publishes 2018 Report on Data Breach Statistics

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Dissent

On January 29, 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the “Dutch DPA”) published a report (in Dutch) on the personal data breach notifications received in 2018 (the “Report”). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) requires data controllers to notify a personal data breach to the competent Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) within…

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Judge Denies Yahoo Privacy Data Breach Settlement

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Dissent

Matthew Renda reports: A federal judge denied approval of a settlement in the Yahoo data breach class action on Monday, saying Yahoo’s refusal to disclose the total amount to be paid out to those affected by the largest data breach in history renders it insufficient. “The proposed notice does not disclose the costs of credit…

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Data of 14,200 Singapore patients with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Dissent

Chang AI-Lien reports:  Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28). Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 onward before being…

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