US Is the Data Theft Capital of the World

A new report by Uswitch has revealed which countries have been the worst hit by data breaches and the US ranks first with nearly 19 million data records stolen.  That’s more than 4X the next closest country (South Korea). Canada, the UK, and Australia rounded out the top five. China and India aren’t listed anywhere in

GDPR vs CCPA: How Privacy Regulations Affect Businesses

New privacy laws on the world stage are impacting businesses that have any online presence and capture personally-identifiable data. GDPR The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has already had a significant effect on companies doing business in the EU or doing business with EU residents.  It’s affected most U.S. based companies that have any

New data leak exposes 773 Million email accounts; How to check if you are at risk

Here we go again.  773 million email address and passwords have been leaked. Security expert Troy Hunt dropped this bombshell this week on his blog.  What he calls “Collection #1” is a set of email addresses and passwords that’s being shared on the dark web.  Spanning different providers, nearly three-quarters of a billion user names