Data Breach Notification

FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve ...

A few weeks ago, an appointment scheduling solution, FlexBooker notified its customers that it had been breached. Although Imperva has no specific insider knowledge into what happened during the breach, we can ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed stricter requirements for companies to disclose data breaches. According to the proposal, companies would be required to notify customers affected by inadvertent breaches, and the ...

There seems to be a pattern in data breach and other cyberattack cases: After a breach, a company turns to its insurer for coverage. Sometimes they have specialized cyberinsurance, sometimes not. But ...

It’s fitting that the industry formally recognizes October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but awareness is just where security starts—and the other 11 months of the year are just as important for cybersecurity ...

Each week Breach Clarity, recently acquired by Sontiq, compiles a list of what it considers to be notable data breaches—those that are worth highlighting because of the increased intensity of the risk ...

Even with the travel restrictions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the travel industry is once again tainted by a security incident that resulted in the leak of personal identifiable information found in ...

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of ...

Enforcement of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted in 2016 starts on May 25, 2018. It requires all organizations that do any business in the EU or that collect ...

Maine is tightening the screws on its data breach law. Breaches will need to be reported within 7 business days unless the authorities request otherwise. The bill, signed into law by the ...