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The attacker stole data that British Airways was improperly recording and also redirected users of British Airways website to a bogus site that was designed to steal more data. In October 2020 the ICO fined British Airways £20 million for breaches of GDPR related to the breach.
Violating Articles 5(1)(c) and 13 GDPR in relation to a video surveillance system in an apartment building. [58] 2021-04-15 Vodafone Espana, S.A.U. €150,000 (reduced to €90,000) Spain Violation of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR by processing personal data without consent or any other legal basis. When imposing the fine, the AEPD took into account:
EasyJet publicly revealed the attack in May 2020. [1] They told the BBC that they were only able to notify customers whose details (credit card or email addresses) were stolen in April 2020. [1] EasyJet told BBC "This was a highly sophisticated attacker. It took time to understand the scope of the attack and to identify who had been impacted". [1]
The Ministry of Defense said the breach occurred at a third-party payroll system holding bank details of as many as 272,000 serving armed forces personnel and recent veterans. In a few cases ...
In 1995, the EU passed the Data Protection Directive (DPD), which has recently been replaced with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive federal data breach notification law. The GDPR offers stronger data protection laws, broader data breach notification laws, and new factors such as the right to data portability.
The Act has seven parts. These are outlined in Section 1: [5] This Act makes provision about the processing of personal data. Most processing of personal data is subject to GDPR. Part 2 supplements the GDPR (see Chapter 2) and applies a broadly equivalent regime to certain types of processing to which the GDPR does not apply (see Chapter 3).
European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling 251 million euros on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform that exposed ...
A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1] Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage.