Samantha Humphries provides an insight below on the incident that 92 million MyHeritage user accounts have been compromised discussing the incident and how GDPR now comes into play for data breaches. According to reports, the genealogy website and DNA testing service suffered a data breach where the email addresses and hashed passwords of its customer database were found on a private server.
Samantha Humphries, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Global Markets & Compliance at Rapid7:
“While compliance is never a replacement for securing sensitive data, regulations like GDPR are not simply about sending out an abundance of opt-in emails. Rather, when followed correctly, GDPR is a valuable guideline to help companies investigate incidents quickly, notify the public about a breach in a timely manner and further help protect people’s information.”
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