{"id":281114,"date":"2019-07-09T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281114"},"modified":"2019-07-09T06:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:43:42","slug":"british-airways-fined-183m-over-computer-theft-of-passenger-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-fined-183m-over-computer-theft-of-passenger-data\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways fined \u00a3183m over computer theft of passenger data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using new rules to prevent and impose fines for data breach, Britain\u2019s information regulator on Monday announced a record \u00a3183.39 million fine on British Airways (BA) for a 2018 breach that led to its website users diverted to a fraud site.<\/p>\n<p>The highest fine so far was \u00a3500,000 imposed on Facebook for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) used new norms under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that came into force across the EU in 2018 to fine BA.<\/p>\n<p>The ICO\u2019s announcement is an \u2018intention to fine\u2019 the amount. BA has 28 days to appeal against it. The airline said it had apologised to customers and would appeal and defend its position vigorously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using new rules to prevent and impose fines for data breach, Britain\u2019s information regulator on Monday announced a record \u00a3183.39 million fine on British Airways (BA) for a 2018 breach that led to its website users diverted to a fraud site. The highest fine so far was \u00a3500,000 imposed on Facebook for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) used new norms under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that came into force across the EU in 2018 to fine BA. The ICO\u2019s announcement is an \u2018intention to fine\u2019 the amount. BA has 28 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}