Data protection watchdog reconsiders its £183.4 million fine against British Airways for 2018 data breach, and lowers it down to £20 million

Data protection watchdog reconsiders its £183.4 million fine against British Airways for 2018 data breach, and lowers it down to £20 million
Uber's former security boss, Joe Sullivan, charged by US DoJ for covering up 2016 data breach, that was exposed a year later in 2017
Oh dear. Fraudster is blamed for breach of credit agency Experian, which has exposed the personal data of 24 million South Africans
Hotel chain Marriott International is facing a class action lawsuit in London by millions of former guests, due to its huge data breach in 2014-2018
Sheer scale of stolen user data available online on hacker foums revealed in a report from data loss detection firm Digital Shadows
Activist hackers release 24 years' worth of data from hundreds of police forces in move timed to coincide with protests against police brutality and racism
Students and children at risk as more than 25 million account credentials allegedly stolen from Mathway offered for sale online
Beware the phishing scams warn experts, as the hack of easyJet make available more valuable personal information on the dark web
Personal information of 9 million customers accessed in a “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack, which saw the credit card details of 2,200 people exposed
DoppelPaymer ransomware developers release files stolen from contractors to SpaceX, Tesla, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and US Navy
Not again. Hotel chain confirms it has suffered a second data breach that affects approximately 5.2 million guests around the world
Privacy gaffe. Personal data of 900,000 Virgin Media customers was left on an unsecured marketing database for ten months, ISP admits
Privacy compromise. American company that has a database of more than three billion photographs of people has been hacked
Breach admission. Samsung now admits its rogue alert last week in its Find My Mobile app resulted in some users seeing other people's data
Casino owner MGM has admitted it suffered a data breach in 2019, that included information about celebrities and CEO's of major tech firms
Ransomware attackers claimed to stolen 60GB of data from Canadian defence contractor after ransomware attack in December 2019
My bad. 250 million customer service and support records have been exposed by Microsoft on unsecured cloud database during the new year
Arrests in Netherlands and Northern Ireland as FBI seizes WeLeakInfo.com, which offered index of 10,000 data breaches for as little as £1.50 per day
Who is to blame? Unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket held passport scans and other sensitive personal data, but the culprit has yet to be identified
Facebook should not face financial damage claims after the hack of 29 million accounts, but can pressure for better security
Hackers make off with customers' personal details in second online attack to affect Chinese smartphone maker in two years
Weeks before the general election, the Labour Party claims its systems have been subjected to a cyberattack
Not our fault. Supermarket tells Supreme Court it was not liable for 2014 hack of staff payroll data
Rogue employee at security vendor Trend Micro sold data of 68,000 customers to third party
Lawsuit alleges Equifax failed to take the most basic security precautions that resulted in highly damaging breach in 2017
European central bank shuts down banking industry website after it discovers it was accessed by unknown parties
Personal information of 317 people applying for Australian visas leaked after email blunder, ABC investigation finds
Does it ever stop? Another day, another breach, as hackers demand ransom for 700,000 customer records
Data breach that exposed personal information of 2.9 million members costs Canadian financial firm millions
“But we only budgeted $3bn!” Zuckerberg and co going to have dig into the kitty to pay mammoth penalty