Cathay Pacific fined 500k by UKs ICO over data breach disclosed in 2018

Cathay Pacific has been issued with a £500,000 penalty by method of the United Kingdom’s wisdom watchdog for protection lapses which exposed the private details of a couple of 9.4 million shoppers globally — 111,578 of whom were from the United Kingdom. The penalty, which is the maximum top quality imaginable under comparable UK regulation, used to be as soon as a…
Cathay Pacific has been issued with a £500,000 penalty by the UK’s data watchdog for security lapses which exposed the personal details of some 9.4 million customers globally — 111,578 of whom were from the UK. The penalty, which is the maximum fine possible under relevant UK law, was a…Original article
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