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posted by martyb on Thursday January 11 2018, @08:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the A-stitch-in-time-saves-nine dept.

The BBC reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office has fined a company, “Carphone Warehouse”, (a retailer of cell phones) £400,000 (about $540,000 dollars) over “systemic failures” which allowed hackers to gain access “to personal data of more than three million customers and 1,000 employees.”

According to the BBC: “The Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said: ‘A company as large, well-resourced, and established as Carphone Warehouse, should have been actively assessing its data security systems, and ensuring systems were robust and not vulnerable to such attacks.’ “

Should the U.S. Government enact fines and other measures against companies that fail to implement “rudimentary, commonplace measures" for security?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @06:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @06:38PM (#621025)

    "Should the U.S. Government enact fines and other measures against companies that fail to implement “rudimentary, commonplace measures" for security?"

    sure, right after they fix all their own shit. the irs alone "loses" ~20 billion a year to "fraud". that's just like some scumbag loser debt collector calling to give you shit because some string of dumbass companies let some dumbass thieves steal "your identity" and then some dumb ass paycheck loan company loaned money to them. @#%$ all these @#%$^ and the dumbass slaves who whine for the incompetent criminals in government to save them. if consumers are too stupid to not do business with these stupid #$%^ companies then they deserve to be robbed blind.