Data

Details of three women who had a stillborn baby were posted online by a hospital trust, prompting a probe into the potential data breach.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-53651784

For the past couple of years, a little known cyberespionage group has been conducting carefully planned attacks against victims in a wide geography to steal confidential corporate documents.

The breach compromised 28,000 records, exposing such data as names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses.

 https://www.techrepublic.com/article/sans-cybersecurity-training-firm-suffers-data-breach-due-to-phishing-attack/

There are contractual and technical security measures businesses should consider to minimise privacy risks that arise when transferring personal data from the EU to the US and other jurisdictions outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/data-transfers-demand-due-diligence-after-schrems-ii

Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty

A researcher has found a critically insecure Pulse Connect Secure VPN version belonging to UK retailer Monsoon Accessorize, but claims the firm is ignoring his disclosures

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252487408/Retailer-Monsoon-allegedly-exposing-data-via-Pulse-Connect-server

If you have decided to collect customer and visitor information as part of your government’s COVID-19 contact tracing scheme, this section will help.

The British Dental Association (BDA) has suffered a data breach causing fears that the bank account numbers of a number of UK dentists have been stolen.

Dentists' bank account numbers and correspondence with a trade body are feared to have been stolen by hackers.

Technical information relating to Avon’s web and mobile sites was inadvertently left exposed on an unsecured Microsoft Azure server