Record Fine for Data Breach; ChoicePoint Case Spotlighted ID TheftArshad Mohammed
Facebook parent company Meta Ireland has been fined a total of 390 million euros (413 million U.S. dollars) for breaches of European Union (EU) data protection rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Wednesday. The DPC handed out two fines to Meta Platforms Ireland Limited...
Facebook parent company Meta Ireland has been fined a total of 390 million euros (413 million U.S. dollars) for breaches of European Union (EU) data protection rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Wednesday. The DPC handed out two fines to Meta Platforms Ireland Limited...
Meta failed to document the facts of each breach and the steps taken to remedy them in a manner that would allow the regulator to verify compliance. The regulator reprimanded MPIL for these failures and ordered the payment of fines totaling €3 million. Meta failed to ensure t...
International airline Cathay Pacific has been issued with a £500,000 fine for failing to secure the personal data of its customers. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that, between October 2014 and May 2018, Cathay Pacific's computer systems lacked appropriate security measures tha...
LONDON, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of the United Kingdom announced on Tuesday that it will fine the Marriott hotel chain 99.2 million British pounds (123.6 million U.S. dollars) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ...
An ICO statement says it will "consider carefully the representations made by the company and the other concerned data protection authorities before it takes its final decision". The final figure for the fine could be lower. The previous highest penalty issued by the ICO under was a £500,...
The penalty comes a day after ICO proposed a $230 million fine on British Airways, after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. That fine would be the largest levied by GDPR, surpassing previous penalties such as a fine againstGooglefor $57 million; as well as ...
Airways is facing a 183 million-pound ($229 million) fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers — the biggest penalty to date under new, tougher regulations and one that is likely to be seen as a test case for companies that fail to secure big data ...
complaint, but the series of security flubs that year is well documented. A widespread security breachin October 2018allowed hackers to steal tokens granting access to the profiles of 30 million users. Another bugexposed nearly 7 million users’ photosto developers for roughly 12 days in September...