Data

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48905907

A man found guilty of illegally obtaining people’s personal data and selling it to personal injury solicitors has been fined for breaches of data protection and issued with a £1.4m confiscation order.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/cmc-boss-faces-1-4m-confiscation-order-over-illegal-pi-data

At 9.00am on Tuesday 2 July, St John Ambulance was subjected to a ransomware attack. This has not affected our operational systems and we resolved the issue within half an hour.

http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/system-pages/legal/data-incident.aspx

A sophisticated, far-ranging threat campaign was behind the breach at Indian IT services firm Wipro in April, which was not an isolated incident, RiskIQ report reveals

From Facebook to Starwood (Marriott), Under Armour to Quora, we are all very aware that our personal data has been exposed in one or more data breaches. But what is the impact of constant data breaches on your business?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2019/06/12/2019-data-breach-trends-what-they-mean-for-you-and-your-business/#6b915d06609d

A charity supporting transgender children and young people has issued an apology after thousands of emails were made public online.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48652970

Over half of consumers in the UK (53 percent) are worried that the shift to biometrics to authenticate online payments will dramatically increase the amount of identity fraud, according to new research conducted by Paysafe. The research, found that over three quarters (79 percent) of consumers still favour passwords for making payments online due to concerns about the security of new biometric options.

https://thefintechtimes.com/passwords-for-biometrics/

Consumers prefer passwords to biometrics due to fear of identity fraud

https://www.techradar.com/news/uk-consumers-are-still-worried-about-biometric-security

In the year since the GDPR compliance deadline, the number of data files exposed online without adequate protection is up more than 50% due to misconfigured security controls, report reveals

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252464220/23-billion-business-and-consumer-data-files-exposed-online

Brussels, 22 May - Just a few days short of the GDPR’s first anniversary, the European Data Protection Board surveyed the Supervisory Authorities (SAs) of the EEA and takes stock of the Board’s achievements.

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2019/1-year-gdpr-taking-stock_en