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Dixons Carphone fined £500,000 after millions of customers’ personal data was lost

Point-of-sale computers in Currys PC World and Dixons Travel shops suffered a cyber-attack affecting 14million customers. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), imposed the maximum £500,000 fine to DSG Retail Limited (DSG) under the previous data protection legislation (Data Protection Act 1998), which was in force when the incident occurred. However, they warned that the fine

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Travelex suffers a ransomware cyber-attack

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Foreign currency trader Travelex has fallen victim to a cyber-attack from a ransomware gang called Sodinokibi. The criminals behind the hack told the BBC they are demanding $6m (£4.6m) or company computer systems will be deleted, and customer data sold online. Cashiers have been resorting to using pen and paper to keep money moving at

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ICO issues first UK fine under GDPR to a London pharmacy for £275k

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Doorstep Dispensaree, based in Edgware, north London has been fined a whopping £275,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for “cavalier” disposal of records about vulnerable care home residents. The pharmacy, which supplies medicines to individuals and care homes, stored approximately 500,000 documents containing care home patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, NHS numbers, medical

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GDPR in 2020 – Key topics for the year ahead.

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As we start 2020, what does the year ahead mean for GDPR and what are likely to be the key issues? GDPR Awareness Training and Cybersecurity will be the hot topics businesses will be talking about this year. The GDPR will be two years-old in May. Its purpose is to protect the data and privacy

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Review of the Year – GDPR in 2019

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As 2019 draws to a close, it’s time to take a look at what has happened with the GDPR over the past twelve months. On May 25th this year, we celebrated the first anniversary of the implementation of the regulation. At the time, some organizations were still struggling to both understand and comply with GDPR

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Building contractors fired after losing floor plans for spy HQ

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Building contractors Balfour Beatty tasked with refurbishing the MI6 building in London have been fired after losing the floor plans for the spy headquarters. The plans were said to have contained details of the building’s layout and security protocol According to The Sun, the plans went missing a few weeks ago, having been produced by

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Fears that leaked New Year’s Honours addresses could be sold on dark web

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The home and work addresses of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and emergency service workers have been posted online in a huge Cabinet Office blunder. The government has since apologised “to all those affected” after it accidentally published addresses of more than 1,000 New Year Honour recipients online.1 The file – which included details of senior

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iCaaS leads the way with innovative software

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Scottish entrepreneur Nicola Hartland found a gap in the GDPR market and has since built a very successful business.Hartland discovered that there wasn’t a company offering a quick and easy solution to help her business comply with the new rules. And so iCaaS was launched. She set about raising more than £1.3million worth of investment

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iCaaS goes from strength to strength

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WHEN Nicola Hartland is asked about her line of work, she’s usually met with rolled eyes. GDPR is not the sexiest of topics but it’s certainly the buzz word of the moment in the business world. “People tend to think of GDPR as boring and too complex to get their heads around,” says Hartland, iCaaS

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