IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. How did the data breach occur? However, the ICO hasn’t confirmed this.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Although the GDPR prescribes a penalty regime of fines up to the greater of 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million (about £17 million), the scale of these first fines – and the extent to which the ICO clearly intends to crack down on organisations that fail to properly secure the personal data they process – took most organisations by surprise.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2018

be interviewing several industry thought leaders to see what they think are the significant trends for 2017 and, which of those are evident at LTNY. Sessions in the main conference tracks include: 9:00 – 10:00 AM: Legaltech Keynote – The ESI of Today and the ESI of Tomorrow. Come join us! Where’s our Flying Car?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

million customers had been compromised, but is now known to have affected 10 million customers. Customers of the Adidas.com website may have been affected by a breach after an unauthorised party gained access to customer data. The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. million, which is a 6.4%

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked. French Data Protection Authority Imposes a Record 250,000 € Fine to Optical Center for a Security Breach on its Website. Data breaches in 2017. You can download the PDF by clicking here.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. It's something I certainly didn't understand 10 years ago, and I still remember the initial surprise when agencies started reaching out. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born.

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