UK’s ICO Fine LastPass £1.2 Million Over 2022 Security Breach

UK's ICO fines LastPass £1.2M for the 2022 data breach that exposed 1.6 million users’ data. Learn how a flaw in an employee's personal PC led to the massive security failure...

U.K. ICO Investigates TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur Over Children's Data Protection Practices

The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office ICO has opened an investigation into online platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur to assess the steps they are taking to protect children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the country. To that end, the watchdog said it's probing how the ByteDance-owned...

TikTok facing fines for violating children’s privacy

The European Data Protection Board is expected to fine TikTok for violating the privacy of young children within the next four weeks. The European Data Protection Board said a binding decision has been reached over TikTok's processing of childrens data, after the ByteDance-owned app submitted leg...

“Orwellian in the extreme” food store installs facial recognition cameras to stop crime, faces backlash

A convenience shop chain is under fire and facing legal charges for installing cameras with facial recognition software in 35 of its branches across the UK. The cameras analyze and convert video face captures into biometric data. The data is compared with a database of people who have committed...

Celebrity jewelry house Graff falls victim to ransomware

Data on countless celebrities, including politicians, is apparently now in the hands of ransomware attackers after a group using the Conti variant compromised systems of one of the world’s most exclusive jewelry houses, Graff. Despite what mathematicians like to think, there is an exception to...

British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data

British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9...

Marriott Hit With $123M Fine For Massive 2018 Data Breach

The U.K.’s privacy watchdog is hitting Marriott International with a $123 million £99 million penalty stemming from its 2018 data breach of more than 383 million guest records. The Tuesday fine is issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO and comes only a day after the organization...

Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

Equifax, Experian and Oracle are among a slate of companies whose business is consumer information, that could soon face billions of dollars in fines for improper data handling. Privacy International has filed complaints against seven corporations, consisting of data brokers Acxiom and Oracle,...

Facebook Fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

Facebook has finally been slapped with its first fine of £500,000 for allowing political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly gather and misuse data of 87 million users. The fine has been imposed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office ICO and was calculated using the UK's old...

Companies Could Face $22 Million Fine If They Fail to Protect Against Hackers

Over the past few years, massive data breaches have become more frequent and so common that pretty much every week we heard about some organisation being hacked or hacker dumping tens of millions of users records. But even after this wide range of data breach incidents, many organisations fail to...

TalkTalk Telecom Ordered to Pay Record £400,000 Fine Over 2015 Data Breach

TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based Telecoms company with 4 million customers, has been issued with a record £400,000 $510,000 fine for failings to implement the most basic security measures to prevent the hack that made global headlines last year. The penalty has been imposed by the Informatio...

Fat Finger Error Lands Welsh Health Board $114K Fine

An e-mail gaffe and a spelling mistake by a doctor led to a breach of the UK’s Data Protection Act last year, according to a press release by the Information Commissioner’s Office today. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board ABHB in South Wales was fined £70,000 about $114,000 USD after it mistakenly se...

UK Govt. Investigating London Marathon Data Breach That Spilled Info On 38,000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office ICO said it is looking into a possible data breach of the Website used by organizers of the London Marathon – major, international sporting event that attracted more than 37,000 runners for the 37th running on April 22nd. According to a BBC report, the hom...