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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.
BREAKING NEWS: Your Lawyers – the Data Leak Lawyers – will continue in helping in leading the fight for justice in the BA group action court case.
Our expert consumer rights and data breach lawyers will remain at the forefront of the huge, pioneering battle for compensation against British Airways.
Mr Justice Warby has given the green light for the Group Litigation Order (GLO) to proceed. Together with other Claimant firms, we have also been successful in forcing a U-turn on BA’s efforts to shorten the length of time people have to sign-up to claim. This is a landmark moment in UK legal history, and we’re delighted that we’ve been able to use our experience and expertise to get the right decision that’s best for those affected by the 2018 cyber-attacks.
If you’ve been the victim of a health insurer data breach, it’s important to know your rights; especially when you consider the nature of the information that can be exposed.
Although we have our wonderful public NHS here in the UK, private health insurance is in use by many people. It can often form as part of work perks, or for those with particular conditions they need to manage more effectively.
Health insurers, like all organisations, have an important duty to look after the data that they process and store. However, given that such companies will often use the most personal and sensitive data you can think of, the duty to protect it is even more prevalent.
An Isle of Wight Council data breach has arisen where the local authority reportedly sent other people’s information out to residents in dozens of council tax letters.
This appears to be yet another simple data leak that has taken place that involves a local authority. Councils hold a wealth of personal and sensitive data about a huge number of people, and their duty to safeguard it is incredibly important.
We represent many people making claims for council data breach compensation because of how common incidents can be. We’re therefore not surprised by this latest breach, but it’s still very worrying to hear about it; especially now we have GDPR in place that has put data protection in the limelight.
If you’ve yet to speak to the team for legal advice about the recent Charing Cross gender clinic data breach, we’re here and ready to assist you.
We were contacted for help after some 2,000 people were the subject of an email leak that revealed their personal information. Two emails relating to an art competition were sent to around 900 people in each batch using the “CC” function. This should never have been allowed to happen.
This isn’t the first breach of its kind, with our firm prominent in representing people affected by the similar 56 Dean Street Clinic leak. We’ve taken claims for compensation forward on a No Win, No Fee basis as we consider that there’s a successful case to answer for the GIC leak.
We deal with a lot of cases that involve NHS medical records exposed in various ways, but this has to be the one of the most worrying and bizarre stories we’ve ever seen.
It’s understood that 40 tightly-packed bales of partially-shredded and cut NHS medical records have been used to weigh down a sculpture in Milton Keynes town centre. It’s set to be unveiled this Thursday as part of the annual Festival of Urban Living, but it’s reported that bits of the papers used in the bales have been caught by the wind and have been blown around the area.
Some of the papers are said to have included visible personal details of medical records, including prescriptions and surgery information. This really is a serious, serious matter indeed.
We’ve taken cases forward for Greater Manchester NHS patients whose medical records have been improperly accessed following an investigation by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust.
We were contacted by patients who had been affected by the data breaches prior to news of the scandal hitting the headlines. We’ve agreed to act for victims affected by the data breaches who match our criteria on a No Win, No Fee basis.
Depending on what information has been improperly accessed, and how this has affected you, we may be able to take a legal case forward on your behalf.
We’ve been contacted for help and taken a new case forward involving a Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust data breach for unauthorised medical records access.
If you have been informed that your medical records have been accessed without good reason, you may have a claim for NHS data breach compensation. These kinds of cases can be quite common, and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has had to warn medical staff about making sure to not break the law.
Given we are seeing another incident where this appears to have happened, we expect that an ICO fine may be forthcoming. For those who have been contacted and told that their personal and sensitive data has been misused, we may be able to help you.
Wokingham Council data leaks have hit the news again after media reports of a number of incidents where information has reportedly been sent to the wrong people.
These kinds of leaks can be awfully common, which is why a large number of the cases we take forward for people are council data breach compensation claims.
With the sheer wealth of information that councils hold, and the personal and sensitive nature of it, any leak, breach or hack can be serious.
The volume of Countess of Chester Hospital data breaches has raised some concerns after figures revealed there have been hundreds of incidents in the 2018/19 period.
We say this a lot, but the volume of individual cases that we take forward that involve medical data cases is high. Although the statistics aren’t surprising, given the number of NHS data breach compensation claims we take forward, it’s still worrying; especially when you consider the nature of the information at risk here.
The news about the data revealed by the Chester Standard reported that, on average, there has been more than four every week during the period reviewed.
A seriously concerning security flaw has been discovered which has reportedly allowed hackers to covertly put so-called monitoring implants in iPhones.
The vulnerability is said to have been discovered in January 2019, with Apple releasing a security patch in February 2019. It’s understood that Google’s external ‘white hat’ security team, known as Project Zero, are responsible for identifying the flaw.
There may be thousands upon thousands of people whose phones have been compromised in a way that could allow hackers to have had access to a disturbing wealth of information.
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