HSBC has said some of its US customers’ bank accounts were hacked in October. The lender said that the perpetrators may have accessed information including account numbers and balances, statement and transaction histories and payee details, as well as users’ names, addresses and dates of birth. The BBC understands the firm believes that fewer than […]

Package for better market supervision. Australia’s prudential regulator has been handed $58.7 million to address emerging risks areas stemming from cyber and fintech and improve its data collection capabilities The new funding, to be provided over the next four years, is intended to support the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) strengthen its supervision of the […]

Figure Eight’s Annual Data Scientist Report is now available. Figure Eight (formerly Crowdflower) has been taking the pulse of the data science community since 2015, and this year’s report focuses on both data scientists’ careers and compares their thoughts on AI with those of ethics professionals. Some of the findings include: 89% of data scientists love their job, […]

Cathay Pacific says the personal data of up to 9.4 million passengers have been accessed in the latest security breach to hit the aviation industry. Passport numbers, email addresses and expired credit card details were among the data leaked. Chief executive Rupert Hogg apologised and said there was “no evidence” the information had been misused. […]

Clashes between the need for secrecy in dealing with potential criminality and the obligations of transparency under data protection legislation are common. A recent UK decision (Lonsdale –vNational Westminister Bank Plc) highlights one such clash. In particular, it considered what happens when a DSAR (a Data Subject Access Request) is made seeking disclosure of SARs […]

Sensitive personal information could have been on a council’s website for 11 years, it has been claimed. Documents containing people’s names, addresses and medical conditions were publicly available on Ceredigion Council’s website on Thursday. The man who notified the council of the breach said he reported the same data on the council’s website in 2007. […]

Yahoo has announced that it will encrypt all user information carried in its data centres in response to the accusations that the company gave the US government access to these facilities. CEO Marissa Mayer announced the changes in a post on her Tumblr account: “We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and […]

UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions. The company appealed the […]