The Flowz Blog
Here are some articles published related to Flowz and GDPR that we think you’ll find interesting.
Quora hack exposes up to 100 million user accounts
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 unauthorised...
Massive Bundestag, political parties hack in Germany
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 and...
EE employee stalks ex-girlfriend after accessing her account
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 new...
Largest data breach ever seen discovered
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...
Data breach at Mumsnet leads users to log into other accounts
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...
Customers need to be at the centre of GDPR plans
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...
Google’s GDPR fine may cost it more than just €50m – it will impact the tech industry too
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...
ICO fines two firms for over one million nuisance calls made to TPS subscribers
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...
Many firms still stuck in GDPR prep phase six months after its initiation
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...
Radisson Hotel Group could be GDPR test case
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...