The Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has sanctioned Uber with a €4.240m fine for lack of transparency in the privacy policies, and missed notifications for a data breach occurred in 2017. Find the decision of the Garante (in Italian) here.
The US medical supplies company Solara suffered an incident in 2019 which reportedly affected more than 114,000 patients and also some of its employees. The breach involved personal identifying information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), where cyber criminals had accessed Solara’s Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Solara’s investigation confirmed that the accessed email accounts contained...
The Brazilian DPA (National Data Protection Authority – ANPD) has opened a call for contributions to collect inputs for the creation of a regulation on international transfers of personal data. The deadline is set to 17 June 2022. Contributions can be sent to this link. Since international data transfers are a vital instrument for developing...
PrivacyRules US legal experts provide an update on the US privacy legislation at State level: by publishing the S.B. No. 6 – Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), Connecticut became the fifth State in the U.S. to have a data privacy protection law. CTDPA will become effective on July 1, 2023. Find a summary of the...
The Italian Inter-Ministerial Committee for Cybersecurity chaired by the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, has approved the National Cybersecurity Strategy (2022-2026) and the related Implementation Plan. Through the two approved documents the Government aims to address a plurality of challenges such as: strengthening resilience across the Italian digital transition; the achievement of strategic autonomy in the...
While the Italian State Police had managed to thwart cyber attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 May 2022, the cyber criminals group Killnet is allegedly behind the DDoS attack which is blocking the website of the Italian State Police. Read more here and here.
ZDNEt reports that the Brazilian e-commerce platform Americanas.com suffered a loss of 923 million Brazilian reais (equivalent to $183 million) as a result of two cyber attacks occurred on February 19 and 20: The attacks blocked the e-commerce platform preventing sales. The other structures of the company, namely physical stores and delivery continues operating during...
The press release of the Eastern District of New Your, US, reports that a criminal complaint was unsealed charging an alleged Venezuelan cyber criminal, known in the web as “Nosophoros,” “Aesculapius” and “Nebuchadnezzar,” with attempted computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. The charges stem from his use and sale of ransomware, as well...
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