An update on a monetary penalty notice issued in 2019, from the Information Commissioner’s Office: In February 2019, the Information Commissioner imposed a monetary penalty notice against Somerset Bridge Insurance Services Limited (formerly, and at the relevant time, Eldon Insurance Services Limited) in the sum of £60,000 for a breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications…
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Mobile phone operator Cosmote and parent company OTE fined by Hellenic DPA over 2020 data breach slapped with fine over data breach
Ekathimerini reports: Mobile phone operator Cosmote and parent company OTE have been slapped with fines of over 9 million euros by Greece’s Data Protection Authority over a breach of user records in September 2020. Specifically, the watchdog fined Cosmote 6 million euros for failing to protect a file containing the call histories of thousands of…
Ransomware group threatens to leak data from France’s justice ministry
Mathieu Pollet, translated by Daniel Eck, reports: Hackers from ransomware gang Lockbit 2.0 claimed to have hacked into the French justice ministry on Thursday (27 January). They said that if the ransom is not paid by 10 February, the stolen data will be published. EURACTIV France reports. A total of 9,859 files are ready to be disseminated on…
UK: Data breach at Greensward Academy
Lewis Berrill reports: SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at a secondary school. Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. The information was…
Conti ransomware hits Apple, Tesla supplier
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Conti ransomware gang has been linked to an attack on Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company and a major supplier of power components to companies like Apple and Tesla. The attack took place last Friday, on January 21, according to a statement shared by the company with stock market authorities. Read more…
Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day
Bill Toulas reports: … As revealed, the institution’s site was hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which aims to overwhelm a website with high volumes of “garbage” traffic and a large number of bogus connection requests. This action depletes the available server resources and renders the website unable to serve real visitors,…