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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 ...
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:
The GDPR requires for the additional information (such as the decryption key) to be kept separately from the pseudonymised data. Another example of pseudonymisation is tokenisation, which is a non-mathematical approach to protecting data at rest that replaces sensitive data with non-sensitive substitutes, referred to as tokens. While the tokens ...
A data breach is a violation of "organizational, regulatory, legislative or contractual" law or policy [2] that causes "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". [1] Legal and contractual definitions vary.
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.
In September 2024, the DPC penalized Meta with 91 million euros ($101.5 million) for 2019 violations of the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) security standards.
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 continual
But even if it’s correctly describing the limitations of its tech, that doesn’t give the company a valid defense under the GDPR, Noyb lawyer Maartje de Graaf said in a statement.