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inappropriately accessing medical
June 01, 2023

£10,000 settlement: inappropriately accessing medical data

We previously recovered £10,000 in damages for a client whom we represented in a case where there had been an incident of inappropriately accessing medical data that belonged to them.

This was a serious and flagrant breach of GDPR that had a significant impact on our client, which is why we agreed to pursue the case for them on a No Win, No Fee basis. We are pleased that we were able to succeed with the claim and recover substantial damages on behalf of our client.

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sensitive data disclosure
May 18, 2023

Over £10,000 in damages for sensitive data disclosure

Our team was incredibly pleased to have achieved an award of over £10,000 pounds for a client we previously represented who was the victim of a sensitive data disclosure.

In this matter, the context was particularly important, which we will go into more detail below.

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sharing private information
May 11, 2023

£10,000 settlement for sharing private information without consent

We previously attained a £10,000 settlement for a client who we represented who was the victim of an organisation sharing private information without consent.

The GDPR is incredibly important for organisations to comply with, and it sets out what must be done to make sure that data subjects can benefit from the privacy that they are legally entitled to. If the GDPR is breached, any victim of a privacy event could suffer significant distress and loss. As Leading Data Breach Compensation Experts, we are here to help people.

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spreadsheet attached to
May 04, 2023

£15,000 settlement: data leak of spreadsheet attached to email

We were previously able to resolve a claim for a client of ours for the sum of £15,000 in damages after a spreadsheet attached to an email exposed personal information.

We can tell you as leading privacy compensation experts that, unfortunately, this kind of event can be quite common in occurrence. There is no excuse for such a data leak to happen, and we are pleased that we were able to resolve this particular case in our client’s favour and with such a positive settlement result achieved.

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mental health information
April 27, 2023

£10,000 settlement for data breach involving mental health information

The leading team at Your Lawyers – the Data Leak Lawyers – was able to settle a privacy compensation matter in the sum of £10,000 that involved the disclosure of mental health information.

The disclosure arose from an entirely avoidable error that had a significant impact on our client, as we will outline below.

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context of a data
April 13, 2023

The context of a data breach: why a £20,000 settlement?

The context of a data breach is incredibly important to consider, and is why some claims can settle for much higher values than others, such as a previous one we resolved for £20,000.

Ultimately, a claim for compensation is about assessing the impact that has been caused to a data breach victim. This can differ from person to person, and the context of an incident is one of the key things we need to consider, as we will outline below.

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harm to your career
March 30, 2023

When privacy causes harm to your career: over £30,000 settlement

We are pleased that we have been able to recover in excess of £30,000 in compensation for a serious data breach incident. The crux of this case involved the potential harm to your career that could be caused by a privacy incident.

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leak of pensions
March 16, 2023

Over £12,000 settlement for leak of pensions information

The team here at Your Lawyers are pleased to have recovered over £12,000 in compensation for a client who suffered due to a leak of pensions information.

In this kind of incident, particularly personal and sensitive information can be misused or exposed. As such, it can be expected that the impact on a client can be significant.

This is why we are sometimes able to recover substantial sums in matters of this nature, as we were able to in this particular case.

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settlement for a social services
March 09, 2023

£15,000 settlement for a social services data breach

The team at Your Lawyers secured a £15,000 settlement for a social services data breach that resulted in significant distress to our client, arising from an avoidable disclosure event.

This case was another example where information was disclosed by social services that should not have been disclosed in the first place. Unfortunately, the result was catastrophic for our client. We are satisfied that we were able to secure a settlement as some form of justice for what they had to go through.

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records left on
March 02, 2023

£13,000 settlement for medical records left on public transport

The circumstances of some data breach compensation cases almost seem impossible to imagine, which includes one that we settled damages for involving medical records left on public transport.

In this particular case, our leading data breach compensation team was able to achieve a fantastic settlement for our client in the sum of £13,000 for the misuse of their private information.

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