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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:36PM (1 child)
Did the Market replace you with khallow when we weren't looking?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:36PM
The other way 'round. It was me that replaced khallow when you (and him) weren't looking.
Ummm... let us note (grin) I'm not pretending I'm doing a great job
(doing that would be contrary to my purposes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford