Heathrow fined £120,000 for leaving security staff’s personal data on an unencrypted memory stick October 8, 2018 Heathrow must pay a £120,000 fine after an employee lost a memory stick containing dozens of staff’s personal details. The details of up to 50 security personnel, and 10 people’s names, dates of birth and passport numbers, were exposed on the memory stick, which was found by a member of the public. Read more: Heathrow [...]
Irish regulator to investigate Facebook over data breach with an expected fine of up to $1.6bn October 2, 2018 The Irish Data Protection Office has opened a probe into Facebook over last week's cyber attack, which saw more than 90m accounts potentially affected. Ireland's data regulator will launch the case against Facebook under General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), as it confirmed that less than 10 per cent of the users affected were inside the [...]
Equifax fined maximum £500,000 for data breach affecting 145m people September 20, 2018 Credit rating agency Equifax has received the maximum possible fine of £500,000 for a data breach affecting up to 15m Brits. UK data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the penalty reflected its opinion that the US giant “has no excuse” for failing to follow its own internal policies and the law, [...]