Data Breach Notification

‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules
Richi Jennings | | breach notification, Data Breach Notification, data breach notification laws, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, GDPR Breach Notification, Jessica Rosenworcel, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve ...
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Five Takeaways from FlexBooker’s Data Breach
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 ...

FCC Proposes Stricter Regulations for Data Breach Disclosure
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 ...
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Are Ransomware Payments Covered by Cyberinsurance?
Mark Rasch | | cyberinsurance, Data Breach Notification, data breach response, insurance claim, Ransomware
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 ...
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Why Breach Notification Matters
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 ...
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Breach Clarity Data Breach Report: Week of March 29
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 ...
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Amtrak Announces Data Breach and Potential Leak of Guest Rewards Account Information
Alina Bizga | | Amtrak, Amtrak data breach, Data breach, Data Breach Notification, Digital Privacy, Industry News, personal data exposure, Security Incident
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 ...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key
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 ...

Data Security Solutions for GDPR Compliance
Sara Pan | | breach detection, Compliance, cross border data transfer, Data Breach Notification, Data Classification, Data Discovery, data masking, Data Minimization, Data Privacy, data protection, Data Security, database activity monitoring, database vulnerability assessment, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, pseudonymization, security bloggers network, security of processing, sensitive data
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 Gives 7 Days for Breach Notification
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 ...