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Meta Pixel hack leads to US healthcare provider data breach affecting 3 million patients

CyberSecurity Insiders

Advocate Aurora Health(AAH), a medical services provider serving Wisconsin and Illinois populace, was hit by a data breach affecting over 3,000,000 patients. Moreover, the tool is being used by other hospitals in the country and so it could lead to more such data breaches in near time. million patients. .

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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Exploring Class-Action Lawsuits Arising from Privacy Violations

SecureWorld News

The digital age has brought unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges in an increasingly interconnected world, particularly privacy and data protection. In the context of data breaches, class-action lawsuits allow affected individuals to unite against entities responsible for failing to safeguard their personal information.

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Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households

Security Affairs

Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent. Why This Data Breach is Different. This made us suspect that the database is owned by an insurance, healthcare, or mortgage company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Mental Health Apps are Likely Collecting and Sharing Your Data

Security Boulevard

TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding HIPAA Mental health apps collect a wealth of personal information Information collection extends past user disclosure Mental health apps may share your information with third parties Can users protect their privacy while using mental health apps?

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2018 Global Data Regulations & Compliance Heat Up – Are you Ready?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Some impact specific countries while others focus on individual industries, but each regulation being enforced is an indication that companies must be more accountable when it comes to how they manage data privacy and people’s data or they risk having to pay large fines. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data.

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NEW TECH: Security Compass streamlines the insertion of security best practices into DevOps

The Last Watchdog

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Keep in mind, software security was an afterthought when legacy software development processes first took shape.

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