GDPR

A third of businesses still aren’t GDPR compliant

Businesses are still struggling to become compliant with GDPR, risking huge fines in the process, new research has found. A report by MarketingSignals polling more than 1,000 UK workers found 37 per cent of businesses are still not following GDPR. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 16th August 2018
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Emma’s Diary fined £140,000 for selling personal information for political campaigning

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people. The data broking company, which provides advice on pregnancy and childcare, sold the information to Experian Marketing Services, a branch of the credit […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 9th August 2018
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UK Shipper Was Held to Ransom After 2017 Breach

Clarksons has finally released more details of a 2017 data breach, claiming the hacker demanded a ransom for the stolen information. The UK-headquartered shipper said it discovered unauthorized access to its systems between May 31 and November 4 last year. The attackers got in via a “single and isolated user account” which was subsequently disabled. Read […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 3rd August 2018
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DPC receives over 1,100 reports of data breaches since start of GDPR rules

More than 1,100 reports of data breaches involving people’s personal information have been received by the Data Protection Commission in the two months since a new EU legal regime came into force.  The 1,184 reports to the commission mean data breach reports are significantly up on the average of 230 reported each month in 2017. Read […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 30th July 2018
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Burden of data protection rests on firms and governments

A senior executive at Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency stressed the role of corporate data governance and government regulations in raising the bar on cyber security. The onus is on companies and government agencies to ensure that data breaches are taken seriously, according to a senior executive at Singapore’s national cyber security agency. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 30th July 2018
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ICO’s annual report reveals increased public awareness of privacy and information rights issues

New laws and high profile investigations have helped put data protection and privacy at the centre of the UK public’s consciousness like never before, the Information Commissioner has said. As the ICO’s annual report for 2017-18 was published, Elizabeth Denham said her second year in the role had been ‘one of increasing activity and challenging […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 23rd July 2018
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Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse fined £200,000 for revealing identities of possible abuse victims in mass email

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The Inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent to which institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse, did not keep […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 18th July 2018
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Lexcel – Resurrections and Second Comings

Lexcel and ISO27001 still enjoy a good relationship. Here, Advent IM Security Consultant, Steve Foley, has a look at the updated Lexcel… A number of years ago a colleague published a blog addressing the ‘Rumoured’ death of Lexcel. The title to that piece was a little tongue in cheek as the content actually pointed to […]
  • Posted by Ellie Hurst
  • On 17th July 2018
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Timehop Breach Hits 21 Million Customers

Social media aggregation site Timehop has revealed a major breach of customers’ personal information affecting 21 million users. The firm claimed in a post over the weekend that it discovered a network intrusion on July 4, leading to the compromise of names, email addresses and phone numbers. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 9th July 2018
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