{"id":378943,"date":"2020-10-17T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378943"},"modified":"2020-10-17T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:47:56","slug":"uk-govt-fines-british-airways-25-million-for-failures-in-2018-data-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-govt-fines-british-airways-25-million-for-failures-in-2018-data-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"UK govt fines British Airways $25 million for failures in 2018 data hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds ($25 million) for failing to protect personal data for some 400,000 customers, the largest fine the agency has ever issued. <\/p>\n<p>The ICO said in a statement on Friday that the airline was processing personal data without adequate security measures. It also noted that it did not detect a 2018 cyber attack for two months. <\/p>\n<p>Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said says BA&#8217;s failure to act was unacceptable and affected hundreds of thousands of people, which may have caused some anxiety and distress as a result&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Under the European Union&#8217;s General Data Protection Rules imposed in 2018, organisations face fines of up to 20 million euros ($23 million) or 4% of annual global turnover whichever is greater for the most serious violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds ($25 million) for failing to protect personal data for some 400,000 customers, the largest fine the agency has ever issued. The ICO said in a statement on Friday that the airline was processing personal data without adequate security measures. It also noted that it did not detect a 2018 cyber attack for two months. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said says BA&#8217;s failure to act was unacceptable and affected hundreds of thousands of people, which may have caused some anxiety and distress as a result&#8221;. Under the European Union&#8217;s General Data [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378943","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=378943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}