data breach

February 13, 2020

ICO issues maximum pre-GDPR fine on major UK retailer

Last month the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, imposed a monetary penalty notice of £500,000 on […]

February 11, 2020

Danish tax portal accidentally shares tax payer identification numbers with Google and Adobe analytics services. The error lasted for five […]

February 7, 2020

Human error is the main data breach trend under the new GDPR regime not cybersecurity incidents according the Irish Data […]

February 4, 2020

Corporations love to pretend that ‘anonymization’ of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true. […]

February 2, 2020

Use of personal devices when accessing cloud services and the sprawl of high-risk cloud services drive new areas of risk […]

January 21, 2020

New findings from DLA Piper show that 160,000 data breach notifications reported across 28 European Union Member States and data […]

January 11, 2020

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) £500,000 after a ‘point of sale’ computer system was […]

January 10, 2020

Further to the publication of the ICO’s notices of intention to fine British Airways and Marriott in July 2019, the […]

December 31, 2019

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against medical services company LifeLabs over a data breach that allowed hackers […]

December 27, 2019

Words With Friends company admitted hack in September but size only now revealed. More than 170m usernames and passwords were […]

December 26, 2019

Trend Micro Incorporated a specialist in cybersecurity solutions, today released the results of its latest Cyber Risk Index (CRI) study. […]

December 16, 2019

Personal banking information for tens of thousands of Facebook Inc. workers in the U.S. was compromised last month when a […]