One of the UK’s biggest housing associations in the UK may have suffered a data leak. The Home Group, which is based in Newcastle, has notified around 4000 customers that their personal details may have been stolen. The BBC revealed that customer names, addresses and contact information had been compromised, but no financial data. The […]
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In the past three months, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued 340 fines to organisations that have not paid the data protection fee. The largest fee handed out was for £4,000 and four organisations were made to pay that sum. The ICO’s latest data protection fees trends report revealed that the fees were issued
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An astonishing six in every ten businesses have suffered a data breach in the last three years. Bitdefender (https://www.techradar.com/news/data-breaches-hitting-more-companies-than-ever )carried out research of more than 6,000 cybersecurity professionals from across the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy and Spain to compile its global Hacked Off! study. They found that: 90% of data breaches are caused by
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Phone giant Samsung has been hit with another security breach after users found the Galaxy S10 model allows anyone to unlock the devices when covered in third-party screen protectors. Now banks have withdrawn fingerprint authentication support on the smartphones after the glitch was revealed last week. Natwest and Nationwide have withdrawn support after it was
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Cybersecurity experts have warned that a mobile app promoting the ideology of the communist president could have been spying on 100 million citizens. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s app ‘Study (Xi) Strong Country’ was made mandatory for all communist party members to download and read everyday. Many citizens have had wages ‘tied’ to the app making it a
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Twitter has apologised after misusing personal data for advertising purposes. Twitter said that it “unintentionally” used phone numbers and email addresses for advertising purposes even though the information was provided by users for two-factor authentication. No personal data was shared with the company’s third-party partners and said the “issue that allowed this to occur” has
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More than four million iPhone users may be due a £750 pay-out from Google, after it lost a landmark case at the Court of Appeal. The litigation is being brought by campaign group Google You Owe Us, led by former Which? director Mr Lloyd. The group hopes to win at least £1billion in compensation for
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday newspaper after they published a handwritten letter she’d sent to her estranged father. A statement was issued on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s official website and she started proceedings in the high court over the misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach
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Home security cameras promoted and sold by Amazon come with “huge” security flaws, according to a new report. Worryingly, thousands of children are at risk as the Chinese made cameras are often marketed as baby monitors, according to a new report by Which? The devices claim to provide safety for families and their babies, but
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In the UK, 44% of consumers claim they will stop spending with a business for several months in the immediate aftermath of a security breach? And 41% of consumers claim they will never return to a business post-breach? This could cause huge revenue losses for companies (Research by PCI Pal) Consumers are beginning to realise
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