Data

Genesis service is selling users' personal data, complete with digital fingerprints, such as account credentials, cookies, browser user-agent details, and more.

Parents told of 'extremely small but potential breach of personal data'

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/pupils-data-at-risk-hack-16130107?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Businesses are falling short of meeting the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR's) accountability requirements, the UK's information commissioner has said.

More than 60,000 stolen digital profiles are currently up for sale on Genesis Store, a private and invitation-only online cybercriminal market discovered and exposed by Kaspersky Lab researchers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/criminal-market-sells-over-60k-digital-identities-for-5-200/#.XLIYcVO_gWQ.twitter

Detailed information about more than 540 million Facebook users was left publicly viewable for months, a security firm has found.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47812470

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https://www.observeit.com/blog/insider-threat-level-march-2019-data-breach-reporting-edition/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare

The theft of personal information following data breaches drove an increase in money stolen through fraud to £1.2bn last year.

http://www.cityam.com/275062/data-breaches-drive-losses-fraud-up-12bn

Businesses face higher fines if their processing of personal data is found to breach both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and EU 'e-Privacy' rules, according to a new opinion issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2019/March/gdpr-e-privacy-breaches-factored-into-fines/?utm_source=Emerge&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=56fa6415-e227-49cc-9ca9-5964d82a54c6

Some lawyers have been suffering from “GDPR fever” over the past year and given bad advice based on limited knowledge or too cautious an approach, a leading data protection law specialist has warned.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/some-lawyers-have-been-suffering-from-gdpr-fever

Businesses in the UK took an average of 21 days to report personal data breaches they had identified to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) during the year up to 31 March 2018, according to information disclosed by the watchdog.

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2019/March/businesses-data-breach-response-times/?utm_source=Emerge&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=1e18aac7-f8a7-4f80-9a2d-765ce734e982