Data

Claimant personal injury solicitors are buying leads obtained illegally and in breach of the referral fee ban, a leading insurance company has claimed.

Simple measures could have saved consumer security product supplier from insider breach

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham launches campaign to remind the public of their rights when personal data is used for political purposes

Adobe exposed data on 7.5 million users and employees and one expert says the incident highlights why production data shouldn't be used in test environments.

Online service providers that make access to services conditional on the processing of personal data cannot automatically assume that the processing of the data is necessary for the performance of a contract.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/guidance-on-data-processing-issued-for-online-service-providers

VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

British Airways and others could have saved themselves millions of pounds’ worth of fines by having ethical hackers check their systems for simple vulnerabilities

Data analytics is becoming increasingly scalable, sophisticated and accessible aided by cloud infrastructure, but challenges remain in data quality and building the right culture

https://www.raconteur.net/technology/future-data-analytics

A new investigation suggests customers’ accounts are being hacked and sold off online

https://london.eater.com/2019/10/14/20913303/deliveroo-hacking-passwords-food-deliveries-dark-web?utm_campaign=london.eater&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Imperva CTO Kunal Anand posted updated information regarding the recent breach affecting Cloud WAF customers and admitted poor security controls led to the compromise.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252472293/Imperva-breach-update-puts-blame-on-exposed-AWS-API-keys