Cyber Security Roundup for July 2019
July was a month of mega data privacy fines. The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced it intended to fine British Airways £183 million for last September's data breach , where half a million BA customer personal records were compromised. The ICO also announced a £100 million fine for US-based Marriot Hotels after the Hotel chain said 339 million guest personal data records had been compromised by hackers. Those fines were dwarfed on the other side of the pond, with Facebook agreeing to pay a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine of $5 billion dollars , to put the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal to bed . And Equifax paid $700 million to FTC to settle their 2017 data breach, which involved the loss of at least 147 million personal records . Big numbers indeed, we are seeing the big stick of the GDPR kicking in within the UK, and the FTC flexing some serious privacy rights protection punishment muscles in the US. All 'food for thought' when performing cy...