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Guardian Soulmates Data Breach – Curtain Raiser for Business Continuity Awareness Week

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) takes place this year from the 15th to the 19th of May and focuses on the very topical issue of cyber security. As a timely curtain-raiser for BCAW 2017, the news emerged on Monday that user IDs and email addresses for customers of the ‘Guardian Soulmates’ dating website had been […]

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Matt Hancock Announces New Push on Cyber Essentials

Speaking last week at the Institute of Directors; Minister for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, announced a new push on the Cyber Essentials programme to encourage all UK businesses to adopt the scheme. Measure announced include: Updating the Cyber Essentials requirements, to make the scheme easier to use; A marketing campaign to raise awareness and drive

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Information Commissioner's Office Hands Out More Fines

Two weeks ago the ICO announced that it had fined a senior barrister £1000 for failing to keep clients’ sensitive personal information secure. The ICO explained that the barrister had kept sensitive information on 250 clients on a home computer without using any encryption. Then, during an update of software on the computer, files were

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Private Health Firm Fined £200,000 after IVF Patients’ Confidential Conversations Revealed Online

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced yesterday that it had fined a private health company, HCA International Ltd, £200 000 for failing to keep fertility patients’ personal information secure. Back in April 2015, a patient found that transcripts of interviews with Lister Hospital IVF patients could be freely accessed by searching online. A subsequent ICO investigation

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Sage Group Share Price Falls after Data Breach (or does it)?

On Friday, the UK software firm Sage Group notified about 200 of its UK customers that sensitive information, including their employee bank account details and salary information, may have been affected by a data breach; the firm has also now reported the breach to the City of London Police. More details about the causes of

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Data Protection Incidents Continue to Rise

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released its most recent annual report at the end of June, which showed a continued steep rise in the number of data protection incidents. There were a total of 1954 self-reported data protection incidents in 2015/16, an increase of over 17% from the previous year. The figures are even more

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TalkTalk – A Postscript to the Data Breach

There was an interesting postscript today to the story of the data breach at TalkTalk last October. You will recall that the at first it was feared that personal details of all 4 million of the company’s customers could have been compromised, although the breach ultimately turned out to be much less serious. The company

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