Data Breaches Archive

British Airways had a serious data breach in 2018 and, in 2019, the English High Court authorised a class-action lawsuit against BA, covering potentially 500,000 affected customers. Marriott’s acquisition, Starwood, had suffered a major data breach that started prior to …

The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) issues administrative fines for non-compliance. The higher-tier fine is up to 4% of an organization’s global turnover or €20 million (about $24 million), whichever is greater. Although they differ in content, all 50 …

There are now two law firms putting together class action lawsuits against BA under the provisions of Article 82 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which entitles data subjects to financial compensation for non-financial damages. If the 380,000 customers …

New cybersecurity surveys continue to point at the two main challenges faced by most smaller businesses in terms of defending against cyber attack: They don’t know where they are vulnerable; and They don’t have the skills to close down the …

Cyber security costs money – but then, so does cyber insecurity – and the problem with data breach costs is that they are usually accompanied by even more expensive business disruption and reputation damage – often when you need it …

SANS has, for years, published and maintained the Top 20 Critical Security Controls (now in version 4.1).  These 20 Critical Security Controls, whose origins go back beyond 2008, were implemented by the US State Department in 2009, leading apparently to …

Half of all firms which allow staff to bring their own device, but don’t have any firm information security policies or practices around BYOD, have suffered a security breach – according to Dell, and as reported by Out-law.com. A Dell …