Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings

The French data protection regulator said that France Travail’s response to a 2024 data breach violated GDPR

The UK’s data protection regulator has fined password manager provider LastPass £1.2m after 2022 data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office has chosen only to reprimand the Post Office after a 2024 breach

The Dutch Data Protection Authority issued Experian a €2.7m for GDPR violations including excessive collection of personal data

Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14m by the ICO after a major data breach in 2023

The ICO has decided not to fine the British Library for a 2023 ransomware breach

The ICO’s Deputy Commissioner told Infosecurity that organizations that fail to implement MFA and suffer a breach can expect heavy penalties

The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $263m for a 2018 data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts

The UK’s ICO wants to fine NHS partner Advanced £6m for failures that led to a major ransomware breach

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has been fined £750K following a serious data breach last year

Central YMCA was fined £7,500 for a data breach exposing HIV information of support program participants, prompting the ICO to call for stronger privacy protections for people with HIV

The ICO has fined the Ministry of Defence after an email data breach put lives in danger

The UK FCA held Equifax Ltd responsible for failing to protect UK consumer data held by its US-based parent company

The fine followed an inquiry into data processing by Meta in response to a major data breach

UK regulator reduces penalty by 90%

Interserve slammed by regulator after employee data breach

The data breach saw Zoetop allegedly trying to keep the real impact of the leak quiet

FTC also demands major security improvements

Ireland’s data regulator imposes penalty after inquiry into 2018 data breach notifications