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Home Office data breaches government data breach leak
April 10, 2020

Home Office data breach compensation claim

No one is above important data protection legislation. Victims can be eligible to make a Home Office data breach compensation claim when information is leaked, exposed, or misused, and we can help.

It’s important to know that there’s no hiding from important data protection laws. It applies to all, and this includes public sector bodies and government departments. With a recent spate of hundreds of Home Office data breach reported in the media, it’s important that victims understand their rights.

We’re here to help. If we can represent you for a compensation claim, we can offer No Win, No Fee representation.

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March 31, 2020

Watford Community Housing data breach advice

The Watford Community Housing data breach is a particularly sensitive incident, and victims can be entitled to make a claim for compensation with us on a No Win, No fee basis.

According to the WCH website, an email was sent on the 23rd March 2020 that contained the personal details for several of its customers. They say that this was a “human error” incident and that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been informed about the incident, as well as reporting the matter to their regulator.

Here’s how we can help you and what you need to do as a victim of the breach to get the right legal advice and help that you need. As a leading firm of data breach law specialists, we’re here for you.

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March 09, 2020

Claim GDPR compensation for distress

Victims of a data breach could be entitled to claim GDPR compensation for distress. When it comes to how much you could receive and how to claim, we’re here for you.

The law can entitle a victim of a data breach to receive compensation for any distress and loss caused. A recent court ruling has made it possible to claim for simply being the victim of a breach as well.

As a leading firm of data breach compensation experts, we offer No Win, No Fee representation for people who wish to make a claim with us. Although we have decades of experience in fighting for victims’ rights for claims in general, we’ve been specifically representing data breach clients for over five years. Our experience speaks for itself as this is a great deal longer than most other firms, which is why we’re known experts in this complex and niche area of law.

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fingerprint access
March 06, 2020

Data Leak Lawyers launch Virgin Media data breach compensation action

We’ve launched our Virgin Media data breach compensation action having been contacted for help last night and today by customers affected by the incident.

We have taken legal cases forward on a No Win, No Fee basis for several of the 900,000 victims whose personal information had been left accessible online. We’re aware that at least one third-party has accessed the data that had been left unsecure from April 2019 until 28th February 2020 before a security researcher discovered the leak. It remains to be seen if customers’ information has been accessed by anyone with a malicious agenda.

If you have been affected by the data breach, you could be eligible to claim thousands of pounds in compensation on a No Win, No Fee basis.

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February 28, 2020

Claiming compensation for a security breach

You can be entitled to claim compensation for a security breach, and we can offer No Win, No Fee representation for victims who put their trust in us.

As a leading firm that specialises in data breach compensation law, thousands of people have been coming to us for our expert help for years. We launched our first group legal case back in 2015 when data compensation was an emerging area of law, and many of the dozens of actions that we now help people for involve security breaches. In fact, the first GDPR Group Litigation Order (GLO) that we’re on the Steering Committee for – the BA Group Action – stemmed from a security breach.

Victims can contact our team for free, no-obligation advice about their options for compensation.

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compensation for e-skimming fraud
February 27, 2020

Has my data been breached?

News of incidents appear in the media all the time, and when it involves an organisation you may interact with, the first question people often ask is: has my data been breached?

Well, it isn’t always easy to tell right away. In some cases, organisations that have reportedly been hit by a cyberattack stay silent for some time before they speak out about it. Some are slow to advise people about what has happened which has led to criticism; Equifax being a classic example of this.

Organisations have a responsibility to inform their customers and clients if their information has been misused or exposed. But with speed being an issue, and some cases involving issues where it’s hard to know for sure who has been breached, people need to be wary.

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letter is sent to the wrong address
February 26, 2020

When mail is sent to the wrong person

A simple and common type of data breach occurs when mail is sent to the wrong person. It can easily happen, and it often does happen, and victims should know their rights.

For the victims, once a data leak like this has taken place, the damage is done. It can be easy for this kind of incident to be brushed off as a simple “human error”, but there can be so much more to it than that. In many cases, an incident like this is very preventable and we really shouldn’t be seeing so many incidents like this at all

If this has happened to you, you shouldn’t have to accept that it’s just ‘one of those things’. As a leading firm of expert data breach compensation lawyers, we know from our years of experience how a data leak can really impact a victim. Here’s how we can help you.

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unsecured database compensation claims
February 25, 2020

What to do if your medical records are exposed

If your medical records are exposed, you could be entitled to make a claim for data breach compensation with us on a No Win, No Fee basis.

We represent a lot of people for cases of this nature, and the impact on the victim is usually severe. Data breach compensation amounts are designed to reflect the severity of the distress caused by the loss of control of personal information. When the data misused or exposed is particularly sensitive and confidential, like medical data, the distress can be worse. As such, pay-outs can be significant.

Victims should never suffer in silence. If you have been the victim of a medical records data breach, you could be entitled to compensation, and we can help.

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February 20, 2020

Cyber theft compensation claims

We represent a lot of victims for cyber theft compensation claims. This includes individual claims and the many people involved in our group and multi-party actions.

We can represent victims for compensation cases on a No Win, No Fee basis if they’re eligible to claim with us. We understand that the impact of having your information exposed and / or stolen can be devastating, and organisations are still not doing enough to protect the valuable data that they store and process.

As a leading firm of data breach compensation experts that have been fighting for the rights of victims for a lot longer than many other firms, we can help you.

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February 19, 2020

Department for Work and Pensions data breaches

We represent victims for Department for Work and Pensions data breaches, and we know that the impact in terms of the distress suffered can be severe.

Public sector data breaches are one of the most common types of legal cases that we take forward for people on a No Win, No Fee basis. Given the ongoing resource restraints that many areas of the public sector are under, it’s not uncommon to see incidents that involve organisations like the DWP. Victims do not have to suffer in silence, and they have the right to make a claim for compensation with us.

As a leading firm of data breach compensation experts that have been helping thousands of people for years in this complex and niche area of law, we can help you.

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