Tag: data leak
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Coronavirus: Public Health Wales publishes 18,000 test results by mistake
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The details of more than 18,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus were published online by mistake by Public Health Wales. Read via BBC News.
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UK financial watchdog admits to leaking confidential consumer data
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A Freedom of Information Act request published on the FCA website revealed more than it should. Read via ZDNet.
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Sports Giant Decathlon Leaks 123 Million Records
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
French sporting retail giant Decathlon has become the latest big brand to expose user data via a misconfigured database, leaking over 123 million records including customer and employee information, according to researchers. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
Read MoreEuropean Data Breach Fines hit £97m
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
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Read MoreThis isn’t just poor security….a post on the M&S security incident from Julia McCarron
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron has turned her eye to the M&S security breach… Well as our Marcomms Manager, Ellie superbly put it, “This isn’t just poor security, this is M&S poor security”. The brand synonymous with quality has let the side down following what it claims was an internal system glitch that caused M&S online account […]
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