UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers
could your business be next? Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : UK's ICO swings $230 million stick at British Airways for major data breach John Oates / The Register : UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt Namerah Saud Fatmi / Neowin : British Airways to be fined record-breaking £183m figure over data theft Lpaine / Security Boulevard : British Airways Faces £183m Fine Following Data Breach Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek : British Airways Faces $230 Million Fine for 2018 Breach Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost : Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine Jeff Stone / CyberScoop : British Airways fined $229 million under GDPR for data breach tied to Magecart Ian Murphy / Enterprise Times : British Airways hit with £183 million fine PYMNTS.com : British Airways Fined £183M After 0.5M Users' Data Is Compromised Linda Fox / PhocusWire : British Airways will “vigorously” defend position following huge fine for data breach Tweets: ICO / @iconews : The ICO has issued a notice of its intention to fine British Airways £183.39M for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). https://ico.org.uk/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : British Airways got slammed with a record fine by @ICOnews under the GDPR for data breach. Shows how much larger Facebook's UK penalty would have been if Cambridge Analytica had happened after May 25, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/... Richard Pope / @richardjpope : In the US I regularly heard GDPR framed as somehow ‘anti innovation’. This huge fine for a basic (but harmful) software supply chain fail shows it is not anti-innovation, rather it's going to force legacy tech companies to take notice: https://twitter.com/... @om : Your data is worth about $457 dollars in the UK. (UK ICO fined @British_Airways $229 million for a data breach that effected 500,000 customers.) https://www.bbc.com/... @Equifax breach impacted 143 million people. So Equifax should be fined about $65.35 billion. Just saying! Rory Cellan-Jones / @bbcrorycj : https://www.bbc.co.uk/... BA faces record fine over data breach - in a case which will send a shiver down the spine of anyone working in cybersecurity for a major company Dr Tim Nicholls / @woodpunk : “We have found no evidence of fraud/fraudulent activity on accounts linked to the theft.” BULLSHIT. I was one of two people in my company that had their card details stolen and both of us had fraudulent payments on our card accounts. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... #GDPR Wogan / @woganmay : That's around 400 GBP/customer, and we *are* talking about credit card + CVC details here. If those details were sold and used the actual net damage could be far greater. https://twitter.com/... Jerome Taylor / @jerometaylor : Attention Hong Kong, here's how you penalise an airline for losing customer data in a hack because of piss poor IT security, not a slap on the wrist like you gave Cathay https://www.bbc.com/... Konark Modi / @konarkmodi : This is big. Companies should have some takeaways from issues that BA had: 1. Only add trusted third-parties on your websites. 2. Make sure to audit what data is being shared with them. 3. Ensure you have control over them in case it gets compromised example using CSPs, SRIs. https://twitter.com/... Whitney Merrill / @wbm312 : .@British_Airways to be fined ~$229.54M for poor security practices after a malicious redirect on their site resulted in a breach of personal data of 500,000 individuals in Sept 2018. #GDPR https://twitter.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : BA: “You mean you were serious about those data privacy rules?” British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach — 1.5% of annual turnover https://www.bbc.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog : Remember when BA got compromised with a Magecart style Javascript library? ICO fines them £183m. https://www.bbc.com/...