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Company cyber-attacked but successful claimant’s data not actually breached

The situation The Head of our Data Breach department, Mr Matthew McConville has successfully represented a male against a company whom were subject to a criminal cyber-attack a few months ago. The details of Mr McConville’s client and the company

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Double-sided printing error

The Discovery On 24 January 2020, Mr Whitton’s former employers, 2K Polymer Systems were printing off Mr Whitton’s P45 together with another employee’s P45. As the printer was set on default double-sided printing, it resulted in the first page of

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Single mother and children’s personal data breached by Cardiff Council

Discovery The Head of our Data Breach department, Mr Matthew McConville has successfully represented a family of three in an action against Cardiff Council for their breach of the Data Protection Act 2018/General Data Protection Regulations 2018, a breach of

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Employee’s details left on cleaning trolley

Background Dan Higham (pictured) has successfully represented a client in an action against her former employer for breach of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, a breach of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998, a breach of confidence

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Hallmark Card PLC unlawfully allows access to employees’ personal information

The Discovery On 13 February 2020, a number of former employees for Hallmark Cards PLC received a letter from their former employer to inform them that their data had been breached as a document containing their personal details including: Name

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Bank employee has work laptop stolen containing accessible financial information of customer

Discovery The Head of our Data Breach department, Mr Matthew McConville has successfully represented a client in an action against a bank for their breach of the Data Protection Act 2018 / General Data Protection Regulations 2018, a breach of

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‘Before & After’ weight loss imagery used outside of consent for years

The Discovery In 2017, JM (whom does not wish to be named for the purposes of this case report) successfully completed a weight loss programme with a company known typically as Alevere. Alevere, asked JM if they could use her

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Law firm sends repeated emails to incorrect email address

Discovery Client X (CX) and his ex-partner decided to sell their property and instructed a conveyancing firm to deal with the sale on their behalf. CX became concerned when he did not hear further from the conveyancing firm for some

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Parish council discloses personal information on Facebook

The situation Mr Matthew McConville at Irvings Law has successfully represented Mr David Norris (“Mr Norris”) from Walsall in an action for compensation against the Great Wyrley Parish Council (“The Council”) following their Breach of the Data Protection Act 2018

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Met Police inaccurate recording of info as a result of racial stereotyping

The situation Mr Matthew McConville at Irvings Law has successfully represented a British Accountant (named for the purposes of this Case Report as “Mrs L”) in an action for compensation against the Metropolitan Police Force (“the Police”) following their inaccurate

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