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UK data watchdog fines LastPass £1.2m after 2022 breach exposed data of up to 1.6m users
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined LastPass £1.2 million over a two-part 2022 breach that exposed personal data for up to 1.6 million UK users, finding failures in technical and organisational security including permissive account-linking policies and missed AWS alerts.
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UK data watchdog fines sole trader £200,000 over nearly 1m spam texts targeting people in debt
The Information Commissioner’s Office fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after finding he sent 966,449 unsolicited texts about debt and energy grants from hundreds of numbers; the ICO said the messages lacked sender identification, prompted calls from a firm calling itself The Debt Relief Team, generated more than 19,000 complaints and that Chand has appealed the…
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Dutch regulator fines Experian Netherlands EUR 2.7 million for GDPR violations
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Experian Netherlands EUR 2.7 million for multiple GDPR violations after finding the company collected and used personal data from public and private sources without informing individuals, the regulator said.
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UK regulator fines Capita £14m over 2023 cyberattack that exposed 6.6m people
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita £14 million after a 2023 cyberattack exposed data on about 6.6 million people; the ICO said failures in detection and privileged account controls allowed attackers to exfiltrate roughly 1 TB and deploy ransomware.
