Governor John C. Carney, Jr., signed House Bill 174 (“HB 174”) into law, or the Delaware Insurance Data Security Act, which establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework requiring insurers licensed to do business in Delaware to implement information security programs, report data breaches in a timely manner to the Commissioner and consumers, and empowers the Department of Insurance to investigate violations of the Act and levy penalties accordingly.
Researchers rank data breaches, system misconfigurations and poor security architectures as the top three threats facing cloud platforms in a new report, Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Deep Dive.
The Washoe County School District (WCSD) in Nevada announces a data breach, involving 114,000 students enrolled at WCSD between 2001 and 2016, and "a much smaller number of staff members employed during the same period", says a WCSD press release.
Paper and film records mark the most common location of data breaches in hospitals, according to a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
In a world where devices of all types are connected to networks, the need to maintain strong cybersecurity is greater than ever. For organizations, particularly those that retain financial and other sensitive company and customer data, cybersecurity is critical, as the results of a network breach could be catastrophic.
Capital One Financial Corporation announced a data breach that affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.
A K12.com database containing almost 7 million student records was left open so that anyone with an internet connection could access it, says a news report.
NY Governor Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security - or SHIELD - Act, which imposes stronger obligations on businesses handling private data to provide proper notification to affected consumers when there is a security breach.
