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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:50AM (2 children)
... so, the ICO considers that in the UK, one person's data is worth about half a crown.
(Score: 3, Funny) by WizardFusion on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:05PM (1 child)
...and here I was thinking I was worthless.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Thursday January 11 2018, @07:03PM
That half a crown is just an average.. : P
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