data breach

March 5, 2020

Cathay Pacific fined £500,000 for failing to secure its customers’ personal data

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific Airways Limited £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its […]

March 4, 2020

The UK Home Office has breached European data protection regulations at least 100 times in its handling of the EU […]

February 28, 2020

Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got […]

February 15, 2020

The total number of records exposed in 2019 increased by 284 percent compared to 2018. In total, there were over […]

February 13, 2020

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 […]