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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.
A number of Leicestershire police data breach incidents have been reported in the news recently. Police data breaches are always worrying, so it’s concerning to learn of these incidents.
With public sector data breaches often topping the charts in terms of the volumes of individual cases we take forward, this is a serious matter. The police computers and databases hold a wealth of incredibly personal and sensitive data about millions of people. In the wrong hands, leaks and misuse of such information can be severe for the victims.
Right now, we’re representing people who are claiming data breach compensation as victims of police incidents. News of the prosecutions and investigations into a number of incidents that stem from the Leicestershire force is concerning.
You can be entitled to make a claim for compensation if you have been the victim of a human error data leak, and we can offer No Win, No Fee representation.
Some may believe that there’s nothing that can be done about a human error data leak, and that it’s just “one of those things”.
But that’s not the case at all. With one recent study suggesting that almost two-thirds of data breaches are directly caused by human error, victims need to know what they can do about it. And that’s where we can help you.
In a worrying update regarding the 2015 TalkTalk data breach that we’ve been representing clients for who are making claims for compensation, new customer information has been found online.
The details for an additional 4,545 customers has been found online and could reportedly be located using a google search. Data exposed online included personal information, TalkTalk account data and bank account information.
If you’re one of the thousands of customers whose data has been found online, you may be eligible to join our TalkTalk data breach compensation action. We’re representing victims for cases on a No Win, No Fee basis, and have been doing so for years. This action is one of dozens of group actions and multi-party actions we’re fighting for justice in.
You may be eligible to make a claim for compensation as a victim of a local authority data breach. We can offer you free, no-obligation advice about your options.
As expert Data Leak Lawyers, we’ve been asked for help from thousands of people over the years we’ve been fighting for data breach justice. One of the most common types of individual claims that we take forward involve the victim’s local authority. And with local authorities holding a wealth of personal and sensitive data about huge numbers of people, these kinds of breaches can be severe.
You may be able to make a council data breach compensation claim. You may also be able to make a case for a breach from social services as well. Read on for more advice.
Confidential document disposal is a matter that all organisations – both public and private – must take seriously to avoid a data breach incident. But we know things don’t always get done properly as they ought to, and that’s where we come in.
Important data protection laws – including GDPR that came into force this time last year – encompass the handling, and therefore destruction, of data. Confidential documents must not be binned with other general waste because it may lead to a significant data breach. Confidential waste should always be disposed of in a way that ensures information will not be leaked.
If you’re the victim of a data breach that’s caused by a confidential document disposal failure, you may be able to make a claim for compensation.
If you’ve yet to start your Equifax cyber attack compensation claim, the first thing you need to know is that the clock is ticking!
We’re almost two years on from the discovery of the data breach, and you only have a limited amount of time to start a legal case. We’re already representing a large group of victims who are claiming with us on a No Win, No Fee basis, but it’s not too late to start a case if you haven’t done so already.
The Data Leak Lawyers are pioneers when it comes to data breach compensation for group actions and multi-party litigation. We’re fighting for justice in over 25 different class cases, as well as countless individual claims as well. For some key information about the Equifax action, read on.
A recent Charnwood council data breach incident has been reported to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The victims of the data breach have also been informed as to what has happened, and the local authority has apologised for the breach.
This is another case of private information being accidentally uploaded online. We represent a large number of people who are claiming for council data breach compensation because of how often incidents can happen, and accidental leaks are unfortunately common. This latest incident doesn’t come as a surprise to us, but it ought to have been prevented in the first place.
As tech moves more and more into cyberspace, cloud data breaches are on the rise, and we expect they may keep rising as well.
But why aren’t they secure in the first place, and what can you do if you’re the victim of a cloud data breach incident?
There can be a number of reasons as to how cloud data breaches happen. One of the questions that victims of a data breach may ask is who their legal case needs to be against: the organisation responsible for your data, or the cloud provider. Either way, you may be able to make a claim for data breach compensation when your data is breached, hacked or leaked as a result of the use of cloud software.
Data suggests that there’s been a rise of funds transfer fraud (FTF) in the UK, and with real-time and faster payment processes commonplace these days, we’re not surprised.
Incidents of funds transfer fraud can be linked with data breaches as well. Whether it’s a bank or financial institution that’s hacked – the Tesco data breach being one example – or a scam that’s linked to a data breach, we have to ask the question: what more could have been done, and who’s responsible?
It can only take a little bit of information in the wrong hands to do some serious damage. People have fallen victim to scams that are directly related to big data breach incidents. A rise in FTF is a concern.
In an age of continual breaches and hacks, we know that people want to know what they can do if they become a victim of a data breach.
The important thing to know is that we’re here for you, and this is important for a number of reasons that we’ll go through now for you.
You may find that you don’t feel like the fact that you’re the victim of a breach is treated as a priority by the offending organisation. You may feel that they don’t take the incident seriously enough, and understandably, this can make people angry. But there is far more you can do and there is far more you can be entitled to in law as well.
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