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…
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Big issues to tackle in 2017: red alert on legislation
Hopefully by now, businesses which have not earmarked Friday May 25 2018 as EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) “D-Day”…
Not so finger lickin’ good as KFC loyalty club hacked
Fast food chain KFC might keep the age-old Colonel Saunders’ recipe under lock and key but unfortunately the same cannot…
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,…
Harte Hanks flayed over $112m Trillium sell-off plans
The former boss of global marketing firm Harte Hanks has launched a scathing attack on the company after it announced…
Denham hires diplomat as ICO deputy commissioner
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has already gone one better than predecessor Christopher Graham by appointing a new deputy commissioner, drafting…
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,…
NatWest warns 600,000 over Three breach threat
NatWest Bank has taken matters into its own hands over the Three Mobile data breach by warning nearly 600,000 of…
Row looms as Google nets NHS patient data contract
NHS England’s controversial care.data scheme may be all but dead and buried but the organisation is risking a new outcry…
RNLI opt-in goes down a storm as response trebles
Anyone still harbouring doubts about the wisdom of embracing an opt-in marketing regime need look no further than the RNLI’s…