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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation that specifies standards for data protection and electronic privacy in the European Economic Area, and the rights of European citizens to control the processing and distribution of personally-identifiable information.
In summer 2018, a data breach affected almost 400,000 customers of British Airways, of which almost 250,000 had their names, addresses, credit card numbers and CVV codes stolen. The attack gained access to British Airways systems via the account of a compromised third party and escalated their account privileges after finding an unsecured ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.
For example, if your Social Security number is exposed in a data breach, you may be at a heightened risk for identity theft or fraudulent credit applications in your name. 2. Secure Your Accounts
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), [1] abbreviated GDPR, or RGPD (French for Règlement général sur la protection des données, Italian for Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati and Romanian for Regulamentul general privind protecția datelor) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic ...
The Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12) is a United Kingdom act of Parliament (UK) which updates data protection laws in the UK. It is a national law which complements the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 .
A major PSNI data breach was fundamentally the consequence of the police force not seizing opportunities to secure and protect its internal information, an independent review has concluded.
The PSNI was fined £750,000 for an “egregious” data breach by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). ... The ICO said it had been the most significant data breach in the history of UK ...