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We focus on the latest news surrounding data breaches, leaks and hacks plus daily internet security articles.
We focus on the latest news surrounding data breaches, leaks and hacks plus daily internet security articles.
The new GDPR that came into force last month has potentially allowed for delivery drivers to be responsible for data breaches, which has led to the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) issuing a warning over the potential risks.
The GDPR outlines that the sending of personal data to the incorrect recipient falls within the scope of a data breach, meaning delivery driver errors can be classed as a data protection breach.
According to the NPA’s latest safety report, delivery drivers accounted for 5% of all dispensing errors in a period of just three months.
We’re halfway through 2018, and a recent study has suggested that over a million records have been subject to patient healthcare data breaches so far; and that was actually in the first quarter of the year.
The data released last month perhaps highlights the extent of patient healthcare data breaches and how common they are, which in turn goes to show why so many people come forward to claim for medical data breach compensation.
Other findings in the studies also highlighted a number of common problems we’re already aware of as a firm of lawyers who fight for the rights of data breach victims.
Harvard have reportedly updated their business publication on the Equifax cyber hack that looks to examine the cause of and response to the monumental data protection breach that Equifax suffered last year.
Ultimately, you know your data breach is huge when Harvard Business Publishing have an educational book examining the incident.
The revision was published in the last few months, with the material itself offering educational participants the opportunity to analyse the issues of the data breach, both from the perspective of the management of Equifax, and from how they dealt with their data as well.
A police force has been blasted over data security failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a “damning report” from the body responsible for overseeing the police in Scotland.
The ICO has reportedly demanded immediate action following an audit that has been described as “highly critical” with “urgent recommendations”.
It’s understood that the security of personal data, staff training and awareness, and data sharing are the areas of focus after investigations were undertaken to look into data security failures by the police.
A hospital has reportedly sent the wrong medical records detailing the miscarriage data of another patient.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital were supposed to send a patient her medical records after she suffered a miscarriage at the hospital. As well as sending her own records, they somehow managed to send the medical data of another patient with the hospital notes as well.
The medical data breached in this incident included the patient’s name, address, data of birth, NHS number and notes about treatment they had received at the hospital for a miscarriage
Self-driving cars and the cybersecurity risks and the data breach risks they pose: an unanswered question…
Thieves can already break into cars by hacking remote-entry / keyless entry systems, and security researchers have proven before that the onboard computers of cars can also be hacked, leaving them free to control various parts of a vehicle.
As we move – at speed – toward self-driving cars and lorries being on our roads very soon, the issue of self-driving cars and the cybersecurity risks / data breach risks they pose must be addressed; especially with Tesla – one of the pioneers of self-driving cars – previously being hacked themselves!
Jaguar Land Rover have been subject to an employee data breach that has reportedly affected hundreds of staff.
The personal and sensitive employee data for hundreds of agency staff at the firm’s Solihull site is understood to have been shared around the workforce as the carmaker sets to embark on a job redundancy program that may affect thousands of employees.
The data breached includes payroll information and personal data about days of absence, and even employee disability information.
The healthcare sector is at risk of ‘grunt bot’ attacks, which are one of many innovations hackers have come up with to save themselves time and give themselves the ability to hack their targets more easily and more efficiently.
Grunt bots – literally automated bots that can seek out weak and vulnerable systems and break into them for the hacker in seconds – can save a hacker potentially hours of manual work. The healthcare sector is at particular risk because they’re known to sometimes use outdated systems which can be more vulnerable to attack.
It’s another wake-up call that means, unless healthcare sector shapes up its cybersecurity, they are at risk.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO for losing recordings of sensitive police interviews. Not only did the CPS lose the footage, but they also failed to encrypt the lost police data as well.
The recordings were of multiple interviews with alleged child sex abuse victims that were to be used at trial.
It goes without saying that the unencrypted police data lost in this case was of an incredibly personal and sensitive nature. The fact that it was lost and allowed to be potentially exposed bas led to the huge fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The recent Equifax data breach ‘post-mortem’ that was completed, after a full overhaul and review of exactly what had happened was, a wake-up call, Data Leak Lawyers say.
Many people didn’t even know that Equifax had their data because it had been passed on to them as part of credit referencing checks, meaning a lot of people were surprised when they received the letter notifying them that they had been affected by the breach.
The final information about exactly what was exposed in the monumental hack that broke in the news last year served as a stark reminder about the vulnerability of personal data and was a wake-up call in terms of the scale and severity of the breach.
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