Lloyds Group suffers first mass hack attack of 2017
Lloyds Banking Group has the dubious honor of becoming the first major brand to fall victim to a massive cyber…
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Consumers back GDPR to make their data safer
Companies might be struggling to get in shape for the looming EU General Data Protection Regulation but it could prove…
Royal & Sun Alliance data gaffe fuels £150,000 fine
Royal & Sun Alliance, the insurance giant which claims to have been “protecting individuals, families, and businesses from uncertainty for…
City watchdog admits to highly embarrassing leaks
First it was the Information Commissioner’s Office which had to fess up to a string of data breaches, now City…
Yahoo brand faces chop as breaches prove terminal
Proof – if it were still needed – of the irreparable damage a data breach can inflict on a brand…
Red faces at ICO as it fesses up to 14 data breaches
Next time you get a warning from the Information Commissioner’s Office, you can reassure yourself – in private at least…
Broken security blamed as Yahoo warns of 1bn hack
Yahoo has become the laughing stock of the online security industry after claims the firm was using a password system…
Teenager told to ‘prepare for jail’ over TalkTalk hack
A teenager involved in the 2015 “car crash” hack attack on TalkTalk has been told a jail sentence is “inevitable”…
TalkTalk faces new hack backlash after wi-fi attack
Just when TalkTalk chiefs thought it might – just might – be seeing the back of last year’s mass data breach,…
Thousands warned ‘it could be you’ in Camelot hack
Over 26,500 National Lottery players have been warned that their personal data being held by operator Camelot has been compromised,…