5m customers hit as kids’ toy firm Vtech is hacked
Vtech – the company which markets baby monitors and toys such as Flipsies Dolls and Switch & Go Dinos – has…
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Police seize teenager over TalkTalk ransom demand
The Metropolitan Police has arrested an 18-year-old on suspicion of blackmailing TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding following last month’s hack…
Postcards from the edge: app is latest hack victim
If the TalkTalk hack has taught businesses anything, it seems that honesty is now the best policy after Touchnote –…
Bungling Crown Prosecution Service gets £200k fine
The Crown Prosecution Service has become the latest government organisation to feel the wrath of the data regulator after bungling…
Most data loss happens in the toilet, says new study
Consumers are paying a high price for taking their devices wherever they go after a new study revealed they are…
Personal data widely available on dark web
Fears are growing over the illegal trade in personal data following claims that tens of thousands of people’s identities are…
TalkTalk chief hits back: We’re just the punchball
TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding has come out fighting following a weekend of negative press and fuming customers, insisting the…
TalkTalk under fire as 4m customers hit by hack
TalkTalk customers have hit out at the company after it revealed its website had been hit by a “significant and…
Sony to cough up $8m to staff hit by data breach
Sony has agreed to stump up nearly $8m (£5.2m) in compensation to staff – although not without a fight – after…
Bitter pill for Pharmacy 2U after £130,000 ICO fine
Online drug dispensary Pharmacy 2U – which offers treatments for conditions such asthma, Parkinson’s disease and erectile dysfunction – has been…