Order of Psychologists of Lombardy fined 30,000 € for inadequate data security protection and detection following ransomware attack

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The Privacy Guarantor has fined the Order of Psychologists of the Lombardy Region [Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia]  for 30 thousand euros for not having adopted adequate technical and organizational measures to guarantee data security. The Guarantor intervened following some complaints and the notification of data breach made by the Order, which declared to have…

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ICE takes steps to deport the Australian hacker known as “DR32”

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