The Washington Post reports Capital One agreed to pay an $80 million fine over its 2019 data breach that affected more than 100 million credit card applications. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said the fine was "based on the bank's failure to establish effective risk assessment p...

Organizations are always looking for methods to prevent a data breach from occurring. Osano CEO Arlo Gilbert writes the key to predicting whether an entity will suffer a breach is to look at their various privacy statements. "The posture you take in such notices directly correlates with the chances ...

What if I told you I could predict your organization's likelihood of experiencing a data breach by looking at your company? No, I'm not a hacker, peering into the code to look for vulnerabilities. In fact, anyone should be able to perform the same trick. All it takes is a perusal of the various sta...

Northwest Territories Information and Privacy Commissioner Elaine Keenan Bengts said medical records found at the Fort Simpson landfill in 2018 may have been stolen, CKLB Radio reports. In a report investigating the breach, Keenan Bengts said initial claims that the records were found at the dump ma...

The Straits Times reports Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission announced a slew of decisions on violations of the Personal Data Protection Act, including fines totaling $47,000. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced the publishing of its "Notifiable Data Breac...