The Situation On the 28th February 2020, Styles and Wood Ltd went into liquidation and Ernst & Young LLP (EY) were appointment as administrators. Following on from this and on the 11th May 2020, EY published documents in error containing around…
Monthly Archives: June 2020
118118 Money
The Situation A company called Madison CF UK Limited manage and control various websites, networks and databases including 118118money.com. On the 20th March 2020, Madison CF UK Limited discovered illegal unauthorised access into their network/IT systems. As a result, criminals…
Posted in Group Litigation
EasyJet Data Breach
The Situation In early April 2020, EasyJet unfortunately confirmed that 2,208 of their customers have had their credit/debit card details (amongst other personal information) unlawfully accessed. Then, on the 19th May 2020, EasyJet further confirmed that they suffered a cyber-attack…
Posted in Group Litigation
Social media, photographs and GDPR
Landmark ruling A Court in the Netherlands has recently ruled that a Grandmother must delete photographs of her grandchildren from her Facebook and Pinterest account. Usually, the GDPR does not apply to the purely personal or household processing of data.…
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Change your password after a data breach
Low reaction to a breach A recent study from the Carnegie Mellon University security and privacy institute has revealed that only around one third of people change their passwords following a data breach. The study collected data from 249 participants…
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The biggest cause of data breaches is emailing the wrong recipient
COVID-19 causing error On 25th May 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) “attributed 337 data breaches in the fourth quarter of 2019 to the perennial issue of data being “emailed to incorrect recipient”.” [1] When we break this down, it…
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