by Flowz | Mar 20, 2019 | Recent Breach
Up to 100 million Quora user accounts have been compromised after hackers breached the systems of the question-and-answer website. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo revealed in a blog post that the company discovered “some user data was compromised as a result of...
by Flowz | Mar 20, 2019 | Recent Breach
Major figures from the German political establishment – minus the far-right Alternative für Deutschland – have been victim to a wide-ranging cyber attack that has affected hundreds of Germany politicians as well as stealing personal data from celebrities...
by Flowz | Mar 20, 2019 | Recent Breach
An EE employee accessed his ex-girlfriend’s mobile account, switched her number to a new handset and changed her registered address so that all her texts and calls made to her were instead sent to him. The perpetrator also gained access to her bank details and...
by Flowz | Mar 14, 2019 | Recent Breach
A cyber security researcher has discovered the largest ever collection of leaked data, an 87GB package of 12,000 files, including more than 772 million email addresses and 21 million passwords. Troy Hunt, who runs the Have I Been Pwned website, found the trove after...
by Flowz | Mar 14, 2019 | Recent Breach
Mumsnet users were accidentally logged into the accounts of strangers after a botched software change that was part of the company’s move to the cloud. Between 2pm on 5 February and 9am on 7 February, any users logged into the site could have had their account...
by Joe Gleave | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
Responding to a breach is not just about data, it is about taking care of, and protecting, customers The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has shone a light on how businesses prepare for, and respond to, a data breach. With cyber criminals becoming...
by Joe Gleave | Feb 5, 2019 | Recent Breach
written by Luke Graham at City A.M. Back in December, I wrote an article asking why, six months after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had come into force, we had not yet seen any major fines or punishments for firms that had misused or...
by Chris Walker | Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two companies that made nearly 1.73 million direct marketing phone calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). It is against the law to make marketing calls to numbers that have been...
by Chris Walker | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorised
Many organisations have still not embedded data protection practices into their day to day business operations, according to Stewart Room, lead partner for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data protection at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). After a...
by Chris Walker | Nov 12, 2018 | Recent Breach
Privacy watchers say the breach of personal data of members of the Radisson Hotel Group’s loyalty scheme could be an interesting test case for how the GDPR will be applied. The Radisson Hotel Group, comprising more than 1,400 hotels in more than 70 countries, has...
