Data regulators busy, busy, busy now GDPR is in force
Some so-called experts might have poo-pooed it but data regulators across the EU have confirmed a sharp rise in their…
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Dixons Carphone chief to treble data security budget
Dixons Carphone chief executive Alex Baldock has pledged to treble the group’s data security budget and insisted it is up…
Dixons Carphone and the £400m data breach question
Dixons Carphone could find itself in a whole lot of bother following the data breach which exposed 6 million customers’…
ICO’s ‘measured’ Yahoo! fine risks ‘soft touch’ protests
As the Information Commissioner’s Office knuckles down to yet another investigation into a major data breach, it risks accusations that…
Dixons Carphone pummelled as hackers strike again
Dixons Carphone – whose Carphone Warehouse division was slapped with a joint record £400,000 fine in January over “multiple inadequacies”…
Lib Dems come clean to ICO over breach of voter data
The Liberal Democrats are believed to be the first political party to report themselves to the Information Commissioner’s Office since…
Even God’s disciples can’t escape the ICO or a huge fine
It seems that not even the Father, Son and Holy Ghost offer no defence when it comes to falling foul…
Virgin Media shoots itself in foot over phishing attack
Virgin Media has hit back at Decision Marketing for suggesting its customer data had been accessed by fraudsters, with one…
Scammers access Virgin Media data for phishing attack
Cold-call scammers appear to have accessed Virgin Media customer data to carry out a sophisticated phishing fraud, in a move…
MPs lay into ‘Truly Shambolic Bank’ as TSB chief grovels
It seems it never rains at TSB it just pours and pours following an admission by the bank’s chief executive…