UK Ministry of Justice in hot water over 17 serious data breaches

In the past year, the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported 17 serious data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), affecting more than 120,000 people. This is according to data found in MoJ’s annual report for 2019/20, and analyzed by the Parliament Street think tank. The incidents mostly came down to sloppy and reckless behavior – e.g lost unencrypted …

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SMBs that disclose breaches face less financial damage

Businesses that proactively disclose data breaches tend to lose less money from the event, compared to those that try to keep the incident a secret.  This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts Kaspersky, which polled  more than 5,200 IT and cybersecurity practitioners. Kaspersky found that SMBs, but enterprises as well, that voluntarily inform their stakeholders about an …

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