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The rate of cyber-related suspicious activity reports has grown to nearly 80,000 per year, according to Kenneth Blanco, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in the U.S. Treasury Department. That number includes 13,500 reports per year on suspicious business email alone, up 95% from 2016. Phishing and other email schemes “are among the growing […]
The report, published Thursday by consumer group Comparitech, found that data breach incidents in California led to 5.6 billion personal records being exposed. Oregon came second on the number of records exposed at around 1.3 billion, while New York ranked second on the number of data breaches, at 729. via California experienced more data breaches than any other […]
On June 14, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB 4390 to amend the state’s data breach notification law, and with that Texas joins a growing list of states passing privacy legislation in 2019. In addition to breach notification changes, HB 4390 creates an advisory council to study privacy laws across the U.S. and […]
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that two groups of federal workers can move forward with their class action lawsuits against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 22 million people.According to the appeals court, the data breach left the plaintiffs vulnerable to identity theft, […]