IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Two Tamworth men have been jailed for their part in the 2015 cyber attack on TalkTalk that saw the personal information of 156,959 customers compromised. The then-17-year-old – who could not be named because of his age – was fined £85, given a 12-month rehabilitation order, and had his hard drive and iPhone confiscated in December 2016.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. You can take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in June in this blog.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2019

With the number of data breaches increasing every year, they are now a huge issue for organisations. 46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber breach in the past 12 months and and the International Data Cooperation predicts that a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach by 2020.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 1, 2020

Today the Supreme Court allowed an appeal in Morrisons v Various Claimants1, a significant judgment addressing the extent of an employers’ liability for data breaches maliciously committed by an employee. The Data Protection Act 1998 does not exclude the imposition of vicarious liability for statutory or common law wrongs. Background.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This week, we discuss Amazon’s exposure of customer names and addresses, jail sentences for two TalkTalk hackers, and a data breach affecting a City of York rubbish app. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 November. Here are this week’s stories. He told Norwich Youth Court that he was showing off.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 31, 2018

PECR sits alongside the Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR and provide data subjects with specific privacy rights in relation to electronic communications. customer privacy as regards traffic and location data, itemised billing, line identification, and directory listings. Background. Proposals for change.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 12 January 2018. Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaching the Data Protection Act. There were also inadequate measures in place to identify and purge historic data.”. gdpr for more information.

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