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Data Breach at DMV Contractor Exposes Vehicle Registration Data of Millions of Californians

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Feb

2021

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is investigating a data breach at an address verification company that may have compromised vehicle registration information of millions of Californians. Yesterday, the DMV started notifying vehicle owners that their registration records may have been exposed in a ransomware attack at the Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a […]

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Do Californians use CCPA to protect their privacy?

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Sep

2020

Californians regularly opt-out of companies selling their personal information, with “Do-not-sell” being the most common CCPA right exercised, happening nearly 50% of the time over access and deletion requests, DataGrail’s Mid-Year CCPA Trends Report shows. Consumer rights under CCPA The California Consumer Privacy Act gives California residents the right to: Know what personal data businesses […]

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University of California San Francisco Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Operators after June 1 Attack

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Jun

2020

NetWalker ransomware operators have persuaded the University of California San Francisco to pay over $1 million in an extortion scheme using data-encrypting malware. The attack, UCSF officials say, didn’t even target the institution. UCSF’s School of Medicine is among those leading coronavirus-related antibody testing, Bloomberg reports. Yet the ransomware attack detected on servers inside its […]

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Data Breach at DMV Contractor Exposes Vehicle Registration Data of Millions of Californians

Do Californians use CCPA to protect their privacy?

University of California San Francisco Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Operators after June 1 Attack

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