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, […]

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED that the number of companies fined for data breaches doubled last year as Britain’s privacy watchdog cracked down on organisations for not protecting customer information. As many as 3bn customer records are estimated to be breached this year, according to a new report from Juniper Research. THIS NEWS comes as Virgin […]

The ICO has fined Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC (RSA) £150,000 following the loss of the personal information of nearly 60,000 customers. An ICO investigation looked at the theft of a hard drive device containing 59,592 customers’ names, addresses and bank account details including account numbers and sort codes. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2017/01/150-000-fine-for-insurance-company-that-failed-to-keep-customers-information-safe/ https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/royal-sun-alliance-insurance-plc/