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The Dutch government said it lost two external hard disk storage devices that contained the personal data of more than 6.9 million organ donors. The hard drives stored electronic copies of all donor forms filed with the Dutch Donor Register Read More …
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley announced yesterday a consumer protection settlement between DropBox and the Alameda, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sonoma Counties in California over auto-renewing of paid subscriptions. As part of this settlement and without admitting fault, DropBox has agreed Read More …
More data records have been lost or stolen during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion). Digital security company Gemalto’s Breach Level Index (PDF), published Wednesday, found that an average of 10.4 million records Read More …
Security issues among British companies are extremely high, with 75% of firms admitting they have experienced a data breach in the last year. The data comes from a research ordered by Cyren, a cloud-based security company, and indicates that when Read More …
