SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s DSK Bank, a unit of Hungary’s OTP Group, has been fined 1 million levs ($569,930) for a data breach that afffected over 33,000 clients, the country’s Commission for Personal Data Protection said on Wednesday. The personal data watchdog said the full names, addresses, copies of ID cards as well as bank […]

A data breach detailing more than 800 current and former Charleston County employees’ identifying information was caused by a Human Resources employee accidentally sending a list of information to a former county employee. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the situation Aug. 6. The county on Monday began alerting employees whose information was […]

The UK’s data privacy regulator has said it plans to fine the US hotel group Marriott International £99.2m. The penalty relates to a data breach that resulted in about 339 million guests having had their personal details exposed. The incident is thought to date back to 2014 but was only discovered in 2018. It comes […]

Pregnancy club Bounty UK has been given a £400,000 fine for illegally sharing the personal information of more than 14 million people. The fine was issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in what it said was an “unprecedented” case. Bounty compiled personal data but did not tell people that it was shared with 39 other organisations, […]

Boards at some of the UK’s biggest companies still don’t fully understand the potential impact of a cyber attack according to a new report. The Government’s Cyber Governance Health Check looks at the approach the UK’s FTSE 350 companies take for cyber security. The 2018 report published today shows that less than a fifth (16%) […]

DATA Protection Week 2019 got under way with a stark warning that every organisation will at some point suffer a data breach. The Jersey Opera House was the venue for the opening conference, which was organised by the Jersey Data Protection Association, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the States of Jersey and sponsored […]

One month on from the change in data protection laws, local organisations are responding to the higher standards expected of them under the new legislation. When data protection is done well, it builds and maintains trust between organisations and the individuals whose data they hold. We are encouraged that local organisations are extending that trust […]