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TalkTalk data breach: two criminal hackers jailed

IT Governance

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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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

The first half of 2020 ended on a familiarly bad note, with 92 security incidents accounting for at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. As such, affected individuals should already have been aware that their data had been compromised and taken the necessary steps to mitigate the damage. hack (350,000).

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The damaging after-effects of a data breach

IT Governance

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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The damaging after-effects of a data breach

IT Governance

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 it’s been predicted that a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach by 2020.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 198 – News of the week

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Collection #1 Data Breach Analysis – Part 1. Watch out, your data might have had exposed online. France watchdog fines Google with $57 million under the EU GDPR. 0patch releases unofficial security patches for 3 Windows flaws yet to be fixed. 20% discount.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

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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Weekly podcast: Amazon, TalkTalk and City of York

IT Governance

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. 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.