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Violation of Articles 4(12), 9(1) GDPR and 33(1) GDPR by unauthorised disclosure of a mailing list containing 101 email addresses, and failing to notify this breach to the DPA. The email addresses constituted special category data revealing political party opinions. [69] [70] 2021-05 Locatefamily.com €525,000 The Netherlands
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.
British technology services provider Probrand said it surveyed 1,002 full- or part-time U.K. employees, 64 percent of whom fessed up to forwarding a customer email to their personal accounts in ...
It was initially thought that up to 4 million customers could be affected by the breach. [8] On 24 October, TalkTalk issued a statement saying that a "materially lower" amount of customers’ financial information was stolen, and that the stolen data was not sufficient for money to be taken from bank accounts. [9]
LONDON (AP) — 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 ...
Facebook's lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month.
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.