Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe, ISMG

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

Fraudsters Putting on the Ritz

Mathew J. Schwartz • August 17, 2020

Scammers have reportedly been putting one over on customers of the famous Ritz London, which says it is "aware of a potential data breach within our food and beverage reservation system, which may have compromised some of our clients' personal data." No payment card data was exposed, it says.

Barclays Faces Employee Spying Probe

Mathew J. Schwartz • August 10, 2020

The U.K.'s privacy watchdog is probing banking giant Barclays over its use of employee monitoring tools after the bank in February reportedly shifted from anonymized tracking to giving managers the ability to view data for individual employees.

Pandemic Impact: How Will Data Breaches Evolve?

Mathew J. Schwartz • August 5, 2020

Will the COVID-19 pandemic lead to a spike in the number of reported data breaches? Not necessarily, says cybersecurity expert Brian Honan. But he says that the rush to adopt cloud-based services and expanded remote services might change the types of breaches being reported.

Blackbaud's Bizarre Ransomware Attack Notification

Mathew J. Schwartz • July 31, 2020

How many different shades of bizarre is the data breach notification issued by software vendor Blackbaud? Over the course of three paragraphs, Blackbaud normalizes hacking, congratulates its amazing cybersecurity team, and says it cares so much for its customers that it paid a ransom to attackers.

Questions Persist About Ransomware Attack on Blackbaud

Mathew J. Schwartz • July 30, 2020

Numerous unanswered questions persist concerning a ransomware outbreak at Blackbaud, which provides cloud-based marketing, fundraising and customer relationship management software used by thousands of charities, universities, healthcare organizations and others.

Employee Surveillance: Who's the Boss(ware)?

Mathew J. Schwartz • July 8, 2020

With so many employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, vendors of time-tracking and productivity-monitoring software report surging interest in their wares. Regardless of whether organizations deploy light-touch or more Big Brother types of approaches, beware potential privacy repercussions.

Big GDPR Fines in UK and Ireland: What's the Holdup?

Mathew J. Schwartz • June 1, 2020

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation was meant to finally bring in line organizations that didn't treat Europeans' personal data with respect. But two years after the regulation went into full effect, why have both the U.K. and Ireland each issued only one final GDPR fine to date?

UK Data Breach Reports Decline

Mathew J. Schwartz • May 25, 2020

Britain's privacy watchdog reports it received 19% fewer data breach notifications in the first quarter than in the same period last year. While the decline may be attributed to more organizations better understanding when to report breaches, other countries have seen an increase in breach reports.

EasyJet Data Breach Exposes 9 Million Customers' Details

Mathew J. Schwartz • May 19, 2020

European budget airline EasyJet says it suffered a data breach that exposed 9 million customers' personal details. While no passport details were exposed, the company's ongoing investigation has also found that attackers "accessed" a small number - just 2,208 - of customers' payment card details.

GDPR and COVID-19: Privacy Regulator Promises 'Flexibility'

Mathew J. Schwartz • April 24, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Britain's privacy watchdog has signaled that although privacy rights and transparency - as enshrined under GDPR - remain paramount, it will take a more "flexible" regulatory approach. But this is no data breach "get out of jail" card, legal experts warn.

Morrisons Not Liable for Breach Caused by Rogue Employee

Mathew J. Schwartz • April 2, 2020

Supermarket giant Morrisons is not liable for a data breach caused by a rogue employee, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled, bringing to a close the long-running case - the first in the country to have been filed by data breach victims.

Coronavirus Cybercrime Victims: Please Come Forward

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 20, 2020

As cybercriminals and nation-states take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to further their own aims, authorities are calling on victims to report online attacks as quickly as possible to help them better disrupt such activity.

Facebook Delays EU Dating Service Rollout After 'Dawn Raid'

Mathew J. Schwartz • February 14, 2020

Any lonely hearts in Europe hoping to meet the person of their dreams via Facebook's dating service on Valentine's Day this year will have to wait a little longer. The social network has delayed the EU rollout of its dating service, following a Monday "dawn raid" by Irish privacy investigators.

UK's Brexit Transition Period: Keep Complying With GDPR

Mathew J. Schwartz • February 7, 2020

As former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May famously declared: "Brexit means Brexit." But what Britain's exit from the EU means for the nation's data privacy rules and future EU-U.K. data flows remains to be seen, as the country navigates its post-Brexit transition period.

To Combat Rogue AI, Facebook Pitches 'Radioactive Data'

Mathew J. Schwartz • February 6, 2020

Facebook scientists have proposed using "radioactive data" watermarks to identify when online images get used to train neural networks. The proposal appears to be aimed at the rise of big data startups, such as Clearview AI, that are scraping publicly available photographs to create facial recognition tools.

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