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Emails With Aussie Regulator Show Facebook's Thoughts on 'View As' HackShortly after a massive data breach affected up to 50 million accounts last September, Facebook didn't believe the incident...

Top District Prosecutor Aims to Improve Consumer Breach ProtectionKarl Racine, the attorney general for Washington, D.C., is looking to strengthen the District's data breach laws, specifically by...

Brian Honan of BH Consulting on When to Notify - or NotSince the EU's new GDPR privacy law came into effect in May 2018, one challenge for organizations that suffer a breach is knowing whether or...

Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that caused disruptions at some of its plants and forced the company to turn to manual processes to fulfill...

Finnish authorities will launch an investigation into claims that Nokia phones have been transmitting users' personal data to China, the country's data protection ombudsman announced on Thursday. read more

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator slapped tech giant Google with a new fine on Wednesday over unfair competition, in Europe's latest salvo against Silicon Valley. read more

Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker's total number of records to 863m from 38 websites.

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Marriott CEO reveals more details about the massive data breach Equifax CEO Mark Begor and Arne Sorenson, the CEO of...

Businesses routinely delayed data breach disclosure and failed to provide important details to the ICO in the year prior to the GDPR’s enactment. On average, businesses waited three weeks after...

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [NASDAQ: SZMK] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and...