INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments system recovered an exceptionally large sum of over $40 million, stolen in a single BEC attack, in record time.
There was some question as to whether Schrems II would extend to the similar Swiss-US Privacy Shield agreement, and that question has now been answered.
A new national data privacy legislative framework has been proposed to limit notices and opt-ins instead of relying on the FTC and state governments to protect individuals.
Kmart is not being fined for a breach of privacy laws, but will have to publish a statement on its website (within 30 days) that explains how it used facial recognition technology during this period and why it was found to be in violation. It must also cease this practice going forward, or face the possibility of future fines and legal action.
Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
Marriott has put half a billion guest at risk in one of the largest data breach to date. The scope of the data breach is not only startling due to the numbers of guests that have been affected, it is the sheer amount of time since 2014 that the hackers had had access to the data.
A new proposed privacy bill, The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, would restrict ad targeting to context and to generalized location data that goes no further than the city level.
The world’s third-largest cybersecurity company Fortinet has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor Fortibitch leaked 440 GB of the company’s allegedly stolen SharePoint data.
Pandora cybercrime gang took responsibility for the ransomware attack on automotive supplier Denso and threatened to leak 1.4 terabytes of stolen data. Attack occurred hot on the heels of another compromise on Bridgestone.
A ransomware attack at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center has exposed the sensitive personal information of more than 1.2 million people, forcing it to pay a ransom.
