Data breaches

Npower app attack exposed customers' bank details
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Technology
Posted
25 February 2021
Borders council apologises for data breach
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South Scotland
Posted
18 February 2021
Facebook sued for 'losing control' of users’ data
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Technology
Posted
9 February 2021
Digital Planet. Is the internet affordable where you live? Audio, 41 minutes
Is the internet affordable where you live – prices fall by half in 5 years, says report.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
NHS data breach involving 284 patients uncovered
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Highlands & Islands
Posted
26 November 2020
Children's names shared in email 'breach of trust'
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Bristol
Posted
23 November 2020
Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach
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Technology
Posted
13 November 2020
Marriott fined £18.4m for hotel guests data breach
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Technology
Posted
30 October 2020
Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
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Technology
Posted
28 October 2020
British Airways fined £20m over data breach
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Technology
Posted
16 October 2020
Covid data breach 'could affect public confidence'
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Wales
Posted
20 September 2020
18,000 Covid-19 test results put online by mistake
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Wales
Posted
14 September 2020
Fake website fools Equifax staff
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Technology
Posted
21 September 2017
Uber ex-security chief 'covered up hack attack'
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Technology
Posted
21 August 2020
Dentists' records feared stolen in hack attack
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Technology
Posted
4 August 2020
Second Welsh university's data attacked in hack
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Wales
Posted
27 July 2020
Welsh university's data attacked in global hack
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Wales
Posted
24 July 2020
Police officer phone number publication apology
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NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland
Posted
8 July 2020
Council workers leave after serious data breaches
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Gloucestershire
Posted
23 June 2020
Twitter apologises for business data breach
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Technology
Posted
23 June 2020
HIA data breach was 'procedural error'
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Northern Ireland
Posted
23 June 2020
Babylon Health leaked patients' video consultations
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Technology
Posted
9 June 2020
Patient virus results sent to business by mistake
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NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland
Posted
1 June 2020
EasyJet admits data of nine million hacked
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Technology
Posted
19 May 2020