Cathay Pacific case shows data breach reporting challenges

Multinational companies experiencing a major data breach face significant challenges in co-ordinating co-operation with investigating authorities around the world.

The scale of the challenge was highlighted recently when the chief executive of airline Cathay Pacific, Rupert Hogg, revealed that the company had provided details of a data breach the business first disclosed last month to 27 different authorities spanning 15 jurisdictions.

The case is an example of how the discovery of data breaches can trigger a duty to notify those breaches to not only data protection authorities and impacted customers, but financial regulators and financial markets too.

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