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U.K. Company Fined Over Information Security Lapses

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

jelizondo writes:

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: 2, Insightful) by rylyeh on Thursday January 11 2018, @08:54AM (4 children)

    by rylyeh (6726) <kadathNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday January 11 2018, @08:54AM (#620850)

    Yup!

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  • (Score: 1) by Barenflimski on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:37AM

    by Barenflimski (6836) on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:37AM (#620862)

    That is a great outcome. There needs to be some pressure to secure things. We lock our warehouse doors, why not the doors to the nerve center?

    I do worry about the pendulum, as lawsuits are filed over the simplest mistakes, possibly even a patch someone didn't apply for some reason that makes sense.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:24AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:24AM (#620872) Journal

    Nope. Regulation eats babies, kill puppies and skin cats.
    More regulation will eat more babies, kill more puppies and skin more cats.
    Something-something nanny state.

    Ah sorry, just in case... (GRIN)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:36PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:36PM (#621108)

      Did the Market replace you with khallow when we weren't looking?

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:36PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:36PM (#621180) Journal

        Did the Market replace you with khallow when we weren't looking?

        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)

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