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The Data Breach Disclosure Conundrum

Troy Hunt

As it relates to the UK GDPR, there are two essential concepts to understand, and they're the first two bulleted items in their personal data breaches guide : The UK GDPR introduces a duty on all organisations to report certain personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority.

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. ” A copy of the indictment is available here.

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What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement

Krebs on Security

Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. ” Again, the existing breach settlement page is light on specifics there. per victim, right? .

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 3: The Ease of Disclosure

Troy Hunt

This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. I looked at their Twitter account and there'd been no action for years so I wasn't going to get any traction there.

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Disqus Demonstrates How to Do Breach Disclosure Right

Troy Hunt

But it's equally important that we acknowledge exemplary handling of data breaches when they occur because that's behaviour that should be encouraged. Last week, someone reached out and shared a number of data breaches with me. Breaches I'd never seen before. — Jesse Houston (@gtez) October 6, 2017.

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IBM Cost of a Data Breach study: average Cost of Data Breach exceeds $4.2M

Security Affairs

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 The study highlights the significant impact of the ongoing pandemic on the cost of data breaches and the effort to contain them. since the 2017). ” states IBM Security.

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Streamlining Data Breach Disclosures: A Step-by-Step Process

Troy Hunt

I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. The data was sent to me and after inspecting it, I found identified 84k email addresses in the breach. Look for a contact us form. Look for publicised email addresses.