{"id":126707,"date":"2019-07-09T06:40:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/british-airways-hit-with-major-fine-in-data-theft-case\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T06:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:40:29","slug":"british-airways-hit-with-major-fine-in-data-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/british-airways-hit-with-major-fine-in-data-theft-case\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways hit with major fine in data theft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways is facing a fine of \u00a3183 million (\u20ac207 million) over a data breach in the first public penalty issued by the U.K. under Europes new data regime.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) fined British Airways for failing to protect user data after approximately 500,000 web customers were diverted to a fraudulent site, where attackers stole their details. The ICO believes the breach began in June 2018 and involved names, email addresses and credit card information.<\/p>\n<p>Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham <a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/about-the-ico\/news-and-events\/news-and-blogs\/2019\/07\/ico-announces-intention-to-fine-british-airways\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a statement: \u201cPeoples personal data is just that \u2013 personal. When an organisation fails to protect it from loss, damage or theft it is more than an inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThats why the law is clear \u2013 when you are entrusted with personal data you must look after it. Those that dont will face scrutiny from my office to check they have taken appropriate steps to protect fundamental privacy rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex Cruz, British Airways Chairman and CEO, said the company was \u201csurprised and disappointed\u201d by the initia<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/british-airways-hit-with-major-fine-in-data-theft-case\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways is facing a fine of \u00a3183 million (\u20ac207 milli..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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