The UK's flag-carrier airline is said to be planning to begin settlement discussions that could see customers who became the victims of a data breach receive a compensation payout of up to £3bn. 

It is a business imperative to be able to act quickly in the event of a data breach.  A speedy response can enable businesses to minimise any economic loss and business interruption they might experience, and it can also help them to limit the extent of that breach and meet reporting requirements they may be subject to.

Twitter has been fined €450,000 for breaching data breach notification and record keeping duties under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Financial services institutions will welcome further clarity given by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of the standards of data-related due diligence that must be met when businesses are in the process of acquiring other companies, a data protection law expert has said.

Annual report reveals major incidents of personal data loss affecting 121,355 people and including misplaced, unencrypted USB stick containing documents from a trial, accidental disclosure of identities, and staff files made visible to unauthenticated users

The proposed new EU Data Governance Act (DGA) is a positive step towards to enabling data-driven innovation.

The company People's Energy has contacted all its 270,000 current customers, following a data breach.

Twitter has been issued a big fine for late reporting of a data breach under GDPR rules.

Cybersecurity researchers discover millions of medical files and associated personal data left discoverable on the open web due to being stored insecurely.

FireEye, one of the world largest security firms, said today it was hacked and that a "highly sophisticated threat actor" accessed its internal network and stole hacking tools FireEye uses to test the networks of its customers.