Russians Sentenced for Roles in Massive Data Breach
Two Russian hackers who were key players in one of the largest, most brazen data breaches involving the theft of […]
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Company previously fined for making nuisance calls is prosecuted for failing to change its ways
A company that has already been fined for making nuisance calls has now been prosecuted in a criminal court for […]
Employee who sold personal data to nuisance callers is fined
A former worker at an accident repair firm who downloaded and sold the personal data of motorists to nuisance callers […]
South Korea Fines Bitcoin Exchanges Over Privacy Violations
The South Korean telecommunications regulator has fined eight cryptocurrency exchanges for data protection violations. Source: South Korea Fines Bitcoin Exchanges […]
ICO will take proportionate approach to GDPR fines
The ICO is not planning to issue fines in every circumstance when it detects a breach of the GDPR (or […]
Lessons learnt from UK cyber breach enforcement case
On 10 January 2018, the UK ICO issued a fine to Carphone Warehouse amounting to £400,000, close to the maximum […]
UK’s DPA fines firms behind millions of nuisance calls, spam emails and SMS
Four companies that disrupted people with nuisance marketing have been fined a total of £600,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office. […]
Carphone Warehouse fined for ‘striking’ number of failures that led to data breach
Information Commissioner’s Office fines company £400,000 for ‘concerning’ security issues following investigation of hack of 3m customers’ data. Source: Carphone […]
Fines under GDPR wait for businesses that fail to fix known security flaws now, says UK watchdog
Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were […]
FTC settles case on connected toys
Electronic toy manufacturer VTech Electronics Limited and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission […]
Insurance firm and two senior figures handed record data breach fines
An insurance firm and two senior figures connected with the company have been given record fines for using private detectives […]
Spanish DPA fines Google €300,000 over Street View data collection
Seven years after Google raised hackles by collecting information about Wi-Fi access points with its Street View fleet, Spain’s privacy […]