First published: June 20, 2019 by The Canadian Press Desjardins Group says the personal information of more than 2.9-million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization. The Quebec-based financial institution says the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members. It says the situation is the result of…
Published by Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • June 20, 2019 The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay hackers about $600,000 in bitcoin to end a ransomware attack that crippled the city’s IT infrastructure for nearly a month Riviera Beach is one of several governmental units hit by ransomware attacks during the…
First published by Shawn Lim–24 May 2019 07:56am, thedrum.com Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has introduced three new initiatives which aim to promote innovation through trust by holding businesses accountable for the way they collect consumers’ personal data. Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s data protection initiative GDPR, the PDPC, which…
Published by CPO Magazine. In response to the changing data privacy landscape created by the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, CPO Magazine has released a comprehensive report outlining the challenges and priorities of data protection and privacy officers around the world in 2019. The report is based on a…
Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data. Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info. First published by Thomas Clanburn, 17th May 2019, theregister.co.uk. Unlucky Salesforce customers have been unable to reach the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to…