Marriott hack exposes personal data of 500 million guests
Today, hotel chain Marriott International disclosed a data breach affecting 500 million of its guests. Marriott discovered that the guest reservation database of its subsidiary…
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ICO fines Uber £385,000 for failing to protect data of 2.7 million UK customers
The breach In October 2016 a massive breach affecting 57 million Uber customers and drivers was discovered by the company, but instead of acknowledging the…
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Phishing emails lure university students in the UK
In the last month, the students of many UK universities have been targeted with phishing emails. The UK’s tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC),…
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Metropolitan Police Service’s ‘Gangs Matrix’ breached data protection laws
The ICO has issued an enforcement notice, ordering the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to overhaul how it manages and shares data recorded on the Gangs…
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Security and usability without a trade-off
In the past, effective security often came at the expense of usability and vice versa. Presently, many still believe that both security and usability can’t…
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Personal data of 9.4 million Cathay Pacific passengers breached
Hong Kong based international airline, Cathay Pacific, that serves flights around the world announced a data breach which exposed the personal information of 9.4 million…
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ICO fines Bupa £175,000 for failing to protect customer data from misuse
Bupa Insurance Services Limited who manages domestic and global insurance policies has been fined £175,000 under the Data Protection Act 1998 for failing to have…
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Uber to pay £113 million to settle 2016 data breach
Following the disclosure last year of the 2016 Uber data breach that Uber desperately tried to hide, Uber has agreed to pay £113 million to…
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GDPR: 7 Fundamental principles pivotal to privacy by design
The GDPR dictates that organisations ‘implement appropriate technical and organisational measures’ to ‘ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services’.…
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ICO fines Equifax £500,000 for failing to protect customers’ data
A year on from the disclosure of one of the world’s worst data breaches, the Equifax data breach that impacted 146 million customers globally, the…