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. […]

Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for a series of “systemic failures” uncovered following a data breach in 2015. The ICO described the “number of distinct and significant inadequacies in the security arrangements” of Carphone Warehouse as “striking”, and said that it was “ particularly concerning that a number of the inadequacies related to basic, […]

Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were known about prior to then will be enforced under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK’s data protection watchdog has said. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) clarified the position in a blog about the […]

Your name, your email address, your home address, your bank details, your credit or debit card details. You probably cannot count the number of times that you have been asked to share these important pieces of personal data with a company or organisation in the past weeks or months. As more and more of us […]

A majority (70%) of consumers would stop doing business with a company if it experienced a data breach, according to research commissioned by Gemalto. A survey of more than 10,000 consumers worldwide conducted on behalf of the company also found that seven in ten consumers (69%) feel businesses don’t take the security of customer data very seriously. […]

Find out what steps small firms can take to keep customer data secure. Customer data is any identifiable personal information about a customer held in any format, such as national insurance numbers, address, date of birth, family circumstances, bank details and medical records. It is extremely valuable to fraudsters and securing it is your firm’s responsibility. In line […]

On 6 October 2015, the issued a judgment striking down the US safe harbor framework, which lets EU businesses send personal data to the US businesses registered under the scheme. This briefing explains the background and implications of the ECJ decision. Note that the ECJ’s decision does not pose a direct threat to a significant […]

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 […]