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The number of incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the second quarter of 2020 has increased by over a thousand in comparison to Q1.

HM Revenue & Customs shares details of a number of data security incidents that occurred during the 2019-20 financial year in its annual report

The European Medicines Agency has launched a full investigation into an apparent security incident that has seen documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine stolen

Absa has notified customers of a data breach potentially compromising their personal information.

A proposed class action suit has been launched against Dell Technologies on behalf of thousands of Canadians whose personal information was compromised in a data breach.

British cybersecurity and hardware company Sophos has emailed a small group of customers to alert them that their personal information was exposed following a security breach discovered on Tuesday.

Thefts from social workers and printing errors with parking tickets were among hundreds of data breaches at Sheffield Council last year.

Data breaches happen all the time, affecting organisations in all sectors and of all sizes, including private companies, educational establishments, charities and government bodies.

The identities of hundreds of families with disabled children have been shared with other parents without their consent by a council, in a "fundamental breach of trust and data".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-55048398

The threat of identity theft via a data breach is heightened with the rise of attacks where ransomware threat actors both encrypt and ransom, and exfiltrate and leak their victims’ data. How does this evolution in cyber crime heighten risk for the enterprise, and what steps can we take to safeguard the personal data we hold?

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Essential-tools-to-mitigate-double-extortion-attacks