Data

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is resisting extortion demands from a ransomware gang, but has suffered a data leak in retaliation

Data breaches have been a hot topic this year, as the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an increase in fraud and other cyber attacks across the board, for both consumers and businesses.

Malicious actors manipulated stolen Covid-19 data in a way clearly intended to damage public trust in vaccines, says the EMA

The Ministry of Defence reported more than five hundred data security incidents in 2019-20, with seven serious enough to warrant disclosure to the ICO

European regulators imposed almost €160m worth of fines during the past 12 months, a substantial rise

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from its servers in December was leaked online.

Gaming company Capcom has discovered that the number of customers whose data may have been compromised following a recent cyber-attack is much higher than previously thought.

An opinion from the European Court of Justice has the potential to lead to a flood of privacy complaints against Facebook if upheld

The shutdown of controversial social media site Parler, and the publication of huge amounts of user data scraped by ethical hackers, is giving cyber crime experts cause for concern

A motor industry employee has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, in a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/01/motor-industry-employee-sentenced-in-ico-computer-misuse-act-prosecution/