09/05/20 GDPR Community Round-Up
Updated: May 25, 2020

Here’s a round-up of interesting reading we found online today*;
TechCrunch reports that a data breach at the U.S. Marshals Service exposed the personal information of current and former prisoners. The notice didn’t say how many current and former prisoners are affected by the breach. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment by email or phone.
“American testing giant LabCorp is being sued by a shareholder after two data breaches drove down the value of the company's shares.LabCorp suffered two data breaches in under a year and was one of two dozen companies affected by the 2019 American Medical Collection Agency breach”
Update from law.com “SHIELD and Sword: New York’s Far-Reaching Statute Governing Data Breaches. It may be a while before law enforcement can devote attention to the broadened scope of data breach liability under the new NY SHIELD (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security) Act. Then again, it might not.”
Saryu Nayyar is CEO of Gurucul, a provider of behavioural security analytics technology and a recognized expert in cyber risk management blogs on Forbes “Why Data Breaches Of Large Organizations Still Occur.”
*These sites aren’t affiliated with GDPR Community and these aren’t an advertisement, they’re simply site’s we’ve thought the community might have an interest in reading.