British Airways grovels as 380,000 hit by data breach
British Airways has been forced to issue a grovelling apology – and has rushed out full-page press ads in today’s…
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Data breach complaints soar by 160% in three months
Complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office about potential data breaches have more than doubled since GDPR-Day, according to new figures…
Arsenal FC shores up defence with major Swiss signing
Arsenal Football Club might still be licking its wounds from the weekend’s drubbing by Manchester City but when it comes…
Butlin’s customer holiday plans exposed in online raid
Tens of thousands of Butlin’s customers have been warned that their holiday plans have been exposed after staff at the…
Consumers ‘have to jump through hoops’ for ICO to act
Lodging a successful complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office is being made virtually impossible by the endless red tape which individuals…
Daily Mail tops the list of UK’s most insecure websites
More than half of all the web’s top one million sites will now be flagged up as insecure for visitors…
Child sex abuse inquiry fined £200,000 for data misuse
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after a catalogue of…
Virgin Media in dock again as it cuts off ‘dead customer’
Virgin Media’s data governance has taken another body blow after a Teeside man had his subscription cancelled because the company…
Ticketmaster breach: ‘We’ve complied fully with GDPR’
As if paying through the nose for concert tickets is not bad enough, now 40,000 Ticketmaster customers are facing the…
Bosses finger youngsters for data loss but are guilty too
Oh the folly of youth; more than a third of senior executives believe that younger employees are the “main culprits”…