
Bradford-based Bank & London Advertising Firm Fined Over Illegal Marketing
A bank is among the latest firms to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending illegal marketing texts and emails.
Vanquis Bank Limited, based in Bradford, instigated a campaign to send 870,849 spam text messages…

Equifax Data Hack Affected 694,000 UK Customers
The beleaguered credit reference agency Equifax has now admitted that 694,000 customers in the UK had their data stolen between May and July this year.
The firm's original estimate of its UK cyber-theft victims, made last month, was fewer,…

Supermarket Morrisons Sued by Staff Over Personal Data Leak
Thousands of Morrisons staff are suing the company after their personal details were posted on the internet.
The High Court action is seeking to make the supermarket chain liable after a member of staff stole the data of nearly 100,000 employees…

Secure Sanitisation of Storage Media
Why sanitisation is necessary, the risks to manage, and how to sanitise affordably.
This guidance is suitable for any organisation wishing to ensure that their data held on storage media can not be read by unauthorised…