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Data breach: West Ham United accidentally exposes hundreds of fans’ email addresses August 24, 2018 West Ham United suffered a data breach yesterday when it accidentally shared hundreds of season ticket-holders’ data with one another. UK data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into the breach at the club, whose staff’s email blunder resulted in up to 200 supporters seeing each other’s details. Read more: 20,000 Superdrug [...]
Superdrug tells thousands of customers to change passwords after cyber attack August 22, 2018 Thousands of Superdrug's online customers have been targeted by cyber criminals who claim to have obtained their personal details. The company told customers to change their online passwords after hackers claimed to have stolen information on approximately 20,000 users, but the retailer said it has only seen evidence so far that 386 accounts have been hacked. [...]
Butlin’s admits personal data of 34,000 customers may have been breached | City A.M. August 10, 2018 Leisure firm Butlin’s today admitted that thousands of guest records may have been accessed by an unauthorised third party in a serious data breach. The company told guests that payment details had not been compromised. However, the booking reference numbers, lead guest names, holiday arrival dates, postal and email addresses and telephone numbers in 34,000 [...]
MPs call for social media tax to cover costs of data misuse following fake news inquiry | City A.M. July 28, 2018 MPs have called on social media companies such as Facebook to be taxed to cover the costs of investigating incidences of data misuse, a leaked report has revealed. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee has been investigating the phenomenon of fake news spread through social media following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which [...]
Facebook to use AI to combat Russian interference ahead of US mid-term elections | City A.M. July 25, 2018 Social media giant Facebook has said it will start using artificial intelligence to fight people including Russian operatives who use false information to influence public opinion on its website. Speaking to media, the company said they were expecting there to be activity From Russian agents and other parties on the site ahead of the mid-term [...]
Sorry ICO, fining Facebook will do nothing to fight fake news or stop data scandals | City A.M. July 13, 2018 Let’s be honest, Facebook has got away with it. Since 2014, it has had its hands in the cookie jar, taking our personal data and passing it on to companies like Cambridge Analytica, which could then do whatever they wanted with it. There were no checks, no balances, and no regulation to Facebook’s corporate actions. [...]
Meet Auspex International, a new venture by the former staff of Cambridge Analytica | City A.M. July 12, 2018 The former staff of Cambridge Analytica have set up a new data analysis business, using the same methods as their predecessor, to focus on social and political campaigns in the Middle East and Africa. Auspex International officially launched last night, although Companies House filings show the business was incorporated on 7 June. So far the [...]
Facebook gets hit with maximum fine by UK information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica data scandal July 11, 2018 Social media giant Facebook was dealt a blow this morning when a prominent UK watchdog said it planned to impose a maximum fine on the company for two breaches of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been investigating the harvesting of Facebook users’ data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. It is [...]
Ticketmaster warns customers payment information may have been exposed to hackers June 27, 2018 UK customers of Ticketmaster, GETMEIN! and TicketWeb who bought tickets between February and 23 June this year may have had personal and payment information stolen by hackers. Ticketmaster – which controls more than 80 per cent of worldwide ticket sales – found it had been targeted by fraudsters last week as it identified “malicious software” [...]
Ticketmaster warns of data breach affecting tens of thousands of UK customers June 27, 2018 UK customers of Ticketmaster, GETMEIN! and TicketWeb who bought tickets between February and 23 June this year may have had personal and payment information stolen by hackers. Ticketmaster – which controls more than 80 per cent of worldwide ticket sales – found it had been targeted by fraudsters last week as it identified "malicious software" [...]