Trend Micro hit as rogue staffer steals customer data
Cyber-security giant Trend Micro has been forced to admit that a rogue member of staff has stolen the personal data…
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Morrisons in last ditch bid to stop data breach pay-out
Supermarket giant Morrisons is launching its final attempt to block the UK’s first data breach class action compensation pay-out today…
Uber hackers face jail after admitting to 2016 attack
Two hackers are facing the prospect of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty…
ICO settlement puts kibosh on Facebook compensation
Facebook’s settlement with the Information Commissioner’s Office has effectively blown out of the water any hopes that UK consumers would…
Data breaches, not rogues, are ICO Public Enemy No. 1
Companies suffering data breaches are far more likely to be clobbered by the Information Commissioner’s Office – and harder –…
Equifax faces £100m data breach pay-out claim in UK
Equifax’s 2017 data breach – which affected an estimated 15 million UK customers – has come back to bite the…
Not very Bootiful: Bernard Matthews hit by data theft
Bernard Matthews, the food business which brought us Turkey Dinosaurs, Turkey Drummers and, more recently, Turkey Unicorns, is risking a…
Lawyers given 15 months to build BA breach legal case
Lawyers have until January 2021 to convince up to 500,000 victims of the British Airways data breach to join a…
Facebook axes tons of apps, but claims most were safe
Over 18 months after the Cambridge Analytics scandal first broke, triggering numerous investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, fines…
BA case may open floodgates for psychological claims
Legal action against British Airways over last year’s data breach will be the test case for whether lawyers can prove…