This summer, more than one million Capital One clients had their information breached, furthering the financial sector’s infamous reputation of being the most breached industry with 35 percent of all data breaches.
Virginia Gay Hospital based in Vinton of Iowa state has suffered a data security incident, which might have led to disclosure of personal information of 5,030 patients.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Student Online Personal Protection Act of 2019, a measure that gives parents more control over online information schools collect from students and how their data is used.
Bulgaria’s DSK Bank, a unit of Hungary’s OTP Group, has been fined 1 million levs ($569,930) for a data breach that affected over 33,000 clients, the country’s Commission for Personal Data Protection said.
Hy-Vee, a chain of more than 245 supermarkets located throughout the Midwestern United States, is conducting an investigation into a data breach incident involving payment processing systems that is focused on transactions at some Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops and restaurants.
Capital One, the second largest auto finance company in the United States, operates a Responsible Disclosure Program where researchers can disclose potential vulnerabilities via email.
The Premera Blue Cross data breach lawsuit, which alleges that due to Premera's practices, cyberattackers were able to gain access to the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, protected health information, telephone numbers, and the names of employers, has been settled.
