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Sign-up to a data breach claim today - use our quick and easy form to begin your claim for thousands of pounds in compensation.
You could be eligible to claim data breach compensation for compromised email accounts, and we may be able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis.
Your Lawyers, as Leading Data Leak Lawyers, represent thousands of people engaged in claims in both individual and group and multi-party action cases. Talk to our team here now for free, no-obligation advice about starting a GDPR compensation claim today.
Compromised email accounts can act as a gateway for cybercriminals to access systems and servers, as well as trying to trick people into inadvertently causing or contributing to a data breach.
Most people use email addresses as part of their access credentials, and even if passwords are not known, it is common for reset operations to go via email addresses. As such, it only takes one compromised email address and hackers could use that to try to game access to more information and cause a substantial breach of privacy and information.
Further, they could try to contact people using an organisation’s contact list and try to request that people send them information in order to expose further data. Common horror stories that many people may have heard about is where emails have been intercepted by hackers during the final steps of a house purchase. In some cases, this has resulted in victims sending money for deposits and fees to the accounts directly for the hackers due to intercepted communications.
Ultimately, the dangers of compromised email accounts cannot be understated, and such events could result in significant information exposure and loss. Any innocent victim caught up in a data breach of this nature could be eligible to pursue GDPR compensation.
Anyone affected by incidents involving compromised email accounts could be eligible to recover compensation for any distress or loss caused. The GDPR recognises that we can suffer distress from the loss of control of our personal information, and this could result in a payout of thousands of pounds, even when no loss is incurred. In fact, our average compensation settlement is just over £6,000 in damages, which is mostly for individual cases for distress alone. This shows that it is well worth pursuing a claim for compensation.
If we can establish that an organisation has been responsible for breaching the GDPR, and has been negligent in the duty of care that they had for your information, that is when you could be eligible to pursue a case. If we believe that we could be able to succeed with the claim, we can offer to represent you on a No Win, No Fee basis.
When it comes to our average data breach compensation amount in UK (England and Wales only) claims, we have already touched on this above that our average settlement is just over £6,000 in damages alone. This might sound like a lot and, in some ways, it is, but that is down to our tenacity in making sure that we fight hard for the maximum compensation possible for our clients. This average covers a broad range of cases from the minor to the severe, so it is a fair reflection of our average settlement.
In fact, for medical data breach compensation claims, it is not uncommon for us to settle cases for over £10,000 due to the severity of the distress caused to the victim.
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