Recent Breaches
Half a billion Marriott customers under threat in enormous data breach
As many as 500 million customers of hotel giant Marriott may have had their personal data compromised, and for an undisclosed number that could have include payment card numbers and expiry dates. The hotel chain said that those card numbers were encrypted with...
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...
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...
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...
ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Facebook £500,000 for serious breaches of data protection law. In July, the ICO issued a Notice of Intent to fine Facebook as part of a wide ranging investigation into the use of data analytics for political...