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23.09.18
Barrister fined by ICO as unencrypted client data is uploaded on to the internet
A senior barrister has been fined £1,000.00 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) after unencrypted client data was accidentally uploaded to the internet by her husband. A total of 725 documents, containing information belonging to up to 250 people, were temporarily uploaded to an internet directory when the barrister’s husband was updating software on the…
Read more9.09.18
BA hit by massive data breach
British Airways (‘BA’) has reported that between 10.58pm on 21 August and 9.45pm on 5 September 2018, it was the victim of a ‘sophisticated, malicious’ cyber attack resulting in the theft of personal and financial data belonging to up to 380,000 customers who booked flights via the BA app and website during that time period….
Read more28.06.18
Ticketmaster customer data leak could lead to GDPR claims
Ticketmaster has notified up to as many as 40,000 UK customers that their personal and payment information may have been accessed by an unknown third party. It says that on 23 June 2018 it identified malicious software on a customer support product hosted by a third party supplier. It is understood that the customers affected…
Read more16.02.18
Data Breach : Compensation claims for mass data breaches
In January 2014, Andrew Skelton, an apparently disgruntled employee of Morrisons Supermarket posted a file containing the personal data (including salaries, bank details, and National Insurance numbers) of 99,998 Morrisons’ employees on a file-sharing website. It seems his intention was to cause mass-scale damage to the supermarket. In March 2014, a CD containing the data…
Read more19.01.18
Claims farmer fined for blagging personalised number plate information from DVLA
Miles Savory, the director of Accident Claims Handlers Ltd, has been convicted of breaching the Data Protection Act 1998 following a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) for unlawfully obtaining the name and address of the owner of personalised number plates that he was seeking to purchase. Mr Savory completed and sent official…
Read more12.10.17
Fines for data breaches and the General Data Protection Regulation
Much has been made of the imposition of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), to be integrated into UK law via the Data Protection Bill (“DPB”), in anticipation of its coming into force on 25 May 2018. The rationale behind the GDPR is to provide a legal framework that acknowledges the sensitivity of personal data…
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