Compensation When Your Personal Details Are Leaked

When your personal details are leaked, the law can entitle you to recover compensation for any distress that you have suffered from that is caused by the loss of control of your information.

Your Lawyers are leading Data Leak Lawyers representing thousands of people claiming compensation for these kinds of incidents. You could be entitled to recover thousands of pounds in damages and we may be able to support you on a No Win, No Fee basis.

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Claiming compensation when personal details are leaked

If your personal details are leaked, the GDPR can allow you to claim compensation for any distress that you have suffered from as a result of the loss of control of your information. The GDPR could also entitle you to recover losses and expenses if these are applicable, but you can just claim for the distress which is what most people do.

Most leaks are caused by some form of accident or error which can then fall into the territory of negligence. If we can establish that your personal details are leaked as a result of negligence, that is when you could be entitled to pursue a claim for compensation. It is negligent actions that can result in a breach of the law which could then entitle you to pursue legal compensation.

A distress compensation claim is about recovering damages for the impact that the loss of control of your personal information has had on you. This can be severe, particularly when it comes to sensitive information such as medical data or financial details.

IT errors and email data leaks

Unfortunately, we live in an age when personal details are leaked all the time and a lot of these come down to IT errors and simple email leaks.

An easy example of an IT error is that of the Virgin Media data breach were an unsecured database was left accessible online for a period of 10 months due to an incorrect configuration. We are representing thousands of people who are claiming compensation because their personal details were exposed on the database.

When it comes to email leaks, there have been so many over the last few years. One of the most infamous earlier group actions that we have pursued for people as that of the 56 Dean Street clinic incident of 2015, where an email was sent to almost 800 users of a clinic for HIV services. Unfortunately, this email included the names and recipient addresses which resulted in the leak of confidential medical statuses to hundreds of other people.

Incidents of email leaks happen all the time when organisations send out mass mailshot emails in an archaic way, trying to use the “BCC” function to send them out. This is a dangerous practice because it could result in the simple error of not using the “BCC” function and exposing people’s information. There is plenty of readily available mailing software that organisations could, and should, use these days.

One of the other common ones is emailing the wrong recipient or attaching the incorrect information when emailing something out. These are easy things to happen, but the impact on the victims can be substantial. This is why our work in the area of law to recover compensation for those who are impacted by such data leaks is important.

Claiming human error data leak compensation

As we touched on above, human error data leak compensation claims are common. The victim of such an incident does not have to suffer in silence and you can recover compensation for any distress that you have suffered from, and we may be able to represent you on a No Win, No Fee basis.

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