UK
The no-win-no-fee firm, PGMBM, is suing Easyjet for up to £18bn after nine million people’s data was stolen from the airline’s servers. Easyjet furthermore admitted that more than 2,000 customers’ credit card details stolen. The details accessed from nine million people includes email addresses and “travel details”.
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https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/26/easyjet_sued_9m_data_breach/
https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/19/easyjet_hack_9million_2000_credit_cards/
Capital One must pay a trivial $80m after being hacked last year. The hacker stole personal information on 106 million credit-card applicants in America and Canada. The fine is due to the bank’s failure to establish effective risk assessment processes and the bank’s failure to correct the deficiencies in a timely manner.
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Twitter accounts with millions of followers were briefly hijacked and used to promote a cryptocurrency scam. This was achieved by a spear-phishing attack. Hackers preyed on human vulnerabilities. This incident underlines the critical importance of awareness and education among employees.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/twitter-spear-phishing/
Over half of UK universities reported a data breach to the regulator in the past 12 months. This not only means negatively impacting an institution’s reputation and funding but also data breaches leading to the loss of vital scientific research which have the potential to seriously hamper innovation and affect lives.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/over-half-of-universities-suffered/