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News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of August 15, 2022

August 15, 2022
Editorial Team
Africa, Breach Report, Data Privacy, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Phishing, Weekly Update
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ADCG’s Breach Report and more news updates discussing the FTC announcing new Data Privacy Rules; Troy Hunt, security researcher, releases new email spamming tool to dupe scammers; and Data Privacy advances in Africa.

2020 News in Review

Week Ending December 28 ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…

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ADCG Charter Member Spotlight: Benjamin Mensah in Ghana

May 6, 2020
Editorial Team
Africa, Charter Member Spotlight, Compliance

Benjamin Mensah is the Senior Supervisor, Compliance Monitoring, and AML with Republic Bank Ghana Limited in Accra, Ghana. Mensah is a professional accountant and certified forensic auditor with 15 years of experience in banking operations, internal audit, and regulatory compliance. Recently he became a Charter Member of the Association for Data and Cyber Governance. He…

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