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A survey conducted by data management business DSA Connect has found that 30% of employees are handling more data and that more than a third (37%) anticipated an increase in both the number and value of data breach fines by 2025.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/associate-news/nearly-a-third-of-employees-are-handling-more-data?utm_source=iContact%2BWeekly%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legal-futures&utm_content=
The European Court of Justice has struck down Privacy Shield, the EU-US data-sharing agreement, creating uncertainty for European countries that share data with the US and pressuring the US to reform surveillance laws
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252486234/Schrems-v-Facebook-European-court-strikes-down-EU-US-Privacy-Shield-agreement
Apparent insider breach at Twitter saw so-called “blue tick” accounts of business people, politicians and celebrities hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam
The EU just threw a wrench into transatlantic e-commerce by blocking a key agreement between Europe and the US. Europe’s top court announced that it has effectively invalidated the Privacy Shield that just went into force, saying it won’t adequately protect EU citizens from mass US surveillance.
Orange has confirmed to BleepingComputer that they suffered a ransomware attack exposing the data of twenty of their enterprise customers.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/orange-confirms-ransomware-attack-exposing-business-customers-data/#.XxGAYBEbCpY.twitter
Last summer’s data leak at the hotel chain appears to be far more expansive than previously thought — or the credentials could come from a hack of DataViper.
https://threatpost.com/leaked-details-142-million-mgm-hotel-guests/157402/
Controversial company that scraped data from the public internet to build its facial recognition algorithm faces a joint UK-Australian investigation into its practices
The US’s California Consumer Privacy Act came into force in January this year, but enforcement against technology companies did not begin until this month
At least 15 billion credentials are currently circulating on various hacker forums, giving cybercriminals fodder for account takeover attacks and identity renting services.
A database of 384,319 BMW car owners in the U.K. is being offered for sale on an underground forum by the KelvinSecurity Team hacking group, according to KELA, a darknet threat intelligence firm, based in Tel Aviv.
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/bmw-customer-database-for-sale-on-dark-web/
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