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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: 1) by Barenflimski on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:37AM
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.