Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 7, 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) with recommended actions to protect against and reduce the impact from the CL0P Ransomware Gang exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2023-3436). “CL0P Ransomware Gang,…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has called a data breach caused by a now-former employee who sent the personal information of more than 250,000 individuals to a personal email account “completely unacceptable,” according to reports from The Hill and Politico of a story first reported by The…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Two “people search” service providers have disclosed that data breaches have affected a total of more than 20 million users – over 11.9 million accounts at one and more than 8.1 million accounts at the other – according to individual data breach notices published by both companies and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn More than eight in ten consumers – 86 percent – were the victim of identity theft, credit/debit card fraud, or data breaches in 2020, increasing from 80 percent in 2019, while over half – 51 percent – also experienced a rise in phishing activity during the Coronavirus…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 30, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued an alert reminding consumers of their data privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which provides consumers with access to and control over their personal information. The Attorney General will begin enforcement of the CCPA…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 11, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a measure relating to privacy – Assembly Bill 1202 (A.B. 1202) – that will require “data brokers” that collect and sell personal information about consumers with whom they have no direct relationship to register with California’s Attorney General…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The annual 2019 Global Data Exposure Report released by leading data loss prevention (DLP) solution provider Code42 found that over two-thirds of organizations – 69 percent – said they suffered a data breach due to an insider threat and confirmed they had a DLP solution in place…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A study released in September of 2019 about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which took effect on May 25, 2018, to regulate the transferring of personal information from the European Union (EU) – found many companies around the world are still not prepared for GDPR compliance and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 15, 2019, Risk Based Security (RBS) released its 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report that showed 2019 was on track to be another “worst year on record” for data breach activity, with over 3,800 incidents reported in the first six months of the year. Compared…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act or SHIELD Act (S.5575B/A.5635) into law to protect New Yorkers against data breaches by imposing stronger obligations on businesses handling private customer data to provide proper notification…
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