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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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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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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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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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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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Charities reported 108 data breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) for the second quarter of 2019/20. Latest figures show that this figure – although high – is actually down from the same period last year when 137 breaches were reported to the regulator. And not surprisingly, most of these incidents were down to human
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Did you know that most data breaches in the UK are down to human error? A staggering 88% are not caused by hackers but rather they are mistakes that could easily be avoided with proper training. And 37% of those are caused by sending sensitive information to the wrong recipient – mostly via email.1 Here
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“He’s making a list, “He’s checking it twice, “He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice, “Santa Claus is in contravention of Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.”1 The festive joke may have raised a few laughs on the IC Ho Ho Ho (ICO – Information Commissioner’s Office) website and on
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UK estate agents have been told they must get their data collection in order following a controversial German law case The National Association of Estate Agents has now told its members to review their retention procedures. Berlin property company Deutsche Wohnen has been fined more than £12.4m (€14.5m) due to a GDPR breach. The company
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A major data breach has leaked the texts and usernames of more than 100 million Americans. According to vpnMentor, a company that ranks virtual private networks (VPN), the database of a company called TrueDialog was compromised allegedily. The company is a US-based enterprise communications firm, providing “Enterprise-Grade SMS Texting Solutions.” The database of 604GB included
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