The United Kingdom’s data protection regulator plans to fine Marriott International $124 million for last year’s massive data breach involving 339 million guest records.
A data leak at First American, the largest real estate title insurance company in the United States, has exposed the transaction records of about 900 million customers.
Fifty-three percent of respondents reported that their organization had encountered a critical cybersecurity issue or incident that put a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal in jeopardy and 65 percent of respondents said they had experienced buyers’ remorse because of cybersecurity concerns after closing a deal.
In an effort to tighten data storage practices and data breaches, a bipartisan legislation introduced by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo, Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data (DASHBOARD) Act, will require data harvesting companies such as social media platforms to tell consumers and financial regulators exactly what data they are collecting from consumers, and how it is being leveraged by the platform for profit.
The University of Chicago Medical Center in 2017 announced that it was creating a partnership with Google to use data from patients’ electronic medical records to help make better predictions and advance artificial intelligence in medicine.
In today’s world, an increasing number of transactions are executed online. To do so successfully, storing sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers is a necessity
The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act, or SHIELD Act, was recently passed by the New York legislature. It updates the state’s breach notification laws and broadens the definition of what constitutes a "breach".
News industry websites are at a higher risk of user-data breach or data misuse compared to other industries, the 2019 Feroot User Security and Privacy report found.
