LondonLovesBusiness – Talk Talk fined again after customer data breach

londonlovesbiz-logoTalkTalk has been fined £100,000 for failing to protect 21,000 of its customers data, and putting it at risk by allowing contractors to access it.

Jason Hart, CTO, Data Protection at Gemalto and former ethical hacker said it is the important to punish businesses that fail to protect their customers’ data. He said: “This fine should serve as a warning to all other companies that they need to ensure they are protecting their customers’ data.

“GDPR is just around the corner, so this is likely to be just the start of things and we’ll soon start to see what the real picture of cybersecurity is like throughout Europe. If businesses are not protecting data at its source they will no longer be able to hide any breaches that occur and ultimately deserve to be fined.”

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InfoSecurity Magazine – ICO Confirms Yahoo Communication Post Breach

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that it is talking to Yahoo about the reported billion account breach.

Jason Hart, VP and CTO for Gemalto’s data protection solutions, said that according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index, over one billion records have been compromised in 2016 and using what it currently knows about this latest Yahoo breach, this would be the largest data breach of all time.

“What’s concerning about this breach is that Yahoo still hasn’t been able to confirm the source of the intrusion yet, and the fact that it took them over three years to discover a breach of this magnitude speaks to the amount of work we in the security industry still need to do,” he said. “If Yahoo, one of the largest tech companies in the world, is struggling with security, how can companies with fewer resources combat these bad actors?”

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