Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is investigating a Consumer Council data breach. The PCPD received a breach notification from the council, which announced a "system disruption" on its website but did not reveal further details. "Having considered that the incident ma...

On 28 Sept., the Australian Attorney-General's Department outlined the government's response to the Privacy Act Review Report recommendations. The department's long-awaited, comprehensive review report, released February 2023, proposed 116 recommendations, drawing from 30 key themes that emerged fr...

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office warned organizations regarding the need to increase data protection and security concerning sensitive information belonging to victims of domestic abuse. The warning comes as the ICO issued seven reprimands in 14 months over data breaches involving domestic...

The Record reports the National Student Clearinghouse indicated 890 U.S. higher education institutions had data stolen as part of the MOVEit ransomware hack. Schools from nearly every U.S. state were affected as the attack breached troves of personally identifiable information. Universities nationwi...

Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, published the details of an enforcement sweep covering the data breach handling of municipalities and banks. The regulator carried out 16 inspections and sought to ensure EU General Data Protection Regulation rules for data breach reporting was bein...