The US Safe Harbour framework has, for the last 15 years, provided a mechanism by which European businesses can validly transfer personal data (including employee data) from the EU to the US.   In a ground-breaking decision this week,  the European Court of Justice has declared the Safe Harbour scheme invalid.   This decision will have a […]

Software vulnerabilities, lost hard drives and CDs, malicious insiders, poor security – the UK’s most important data breaches reveal just how many ways data can be put at risk. It’s tempting to believe that important data breaches only happen in the US and the figures tend to bear that out – the US accounts for […]

Despite all the news headlines around data breaches, hackers and identity theft, it is a little known fact that since 2013 over 1 billion consumer records have been stolen by hackers. The estimated cost of this data theft is a staggering $5 billion dollars a year, which inevitably gets passed down to consumers and merchants […]