Category: Data Breach Claims
Marriott data breach fine set to hit £99m
The Marriott data breach fine to be issued by the Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) from the breach that was discovered last year is set to be £99m.
News of the penalty came within days of the record-setting provisional fine that’s been set for the British Airways data breach in the sum of £183m. GDPR allows the regulator to fine organisations up to 4% of their global annual turnover, and for large organisations who are guilty of significant breaches of important data laws, monetary penalties – as seen in these first two big ones – can be substantial.
Victims of the data breach can also be entitled to claims compensation, but this is a separate matter to any fine that’s issued by the ICO.
Does the British Airways data breach fine mean compensation for victims?
The provisional £183m British Airways data breach fine means that the airline is set to be severely punished for the 2018 cyber-attacks that took place.
Fines can be levied at up to 4% of a company’s global annual turnover, and in the BA case, the fine is understood to equate to 1.5% of their 2017 turnover.
The financial penalties that can be issued under GDPR are far higher than what they used to be under its predecessor, the Data Protection Act. But what about compensation for the hundreds of thousands of victims whose information was compromised?
BA data breach fine of £183m sets new record
The BA data breach fine that’s set to be issued in the sum of £183m will be a record high since GDPR was put into legislation in May 2018.
In accordance with the new rules, GDPR fines can amount to 4% of a company’s global annual turnover. In the case of British Airways, their fine of £183m is understood to be 1.5% of their 2017 global annual turnover.
The fact that the fine is set to be so high reflects just how serious the 2018 data breaches incidents were. The British Airways compensation action is one of the over 40 different group and multi-party actions our lawyers are representing people in. You can sign-up to start a claim now on a No Win, No Fee basis here.
Ticketmaster data breach group action
A Ticketmaster data breach group action is on the horizon as our Group Action Lawyers have taken on a number of cases against the ticketing service for their data breach that was revealed last month.
Some 40,000 victims in the UK are thought to have been affected. Those who used the service between February 2018 and June 2018 may have had their data copied using a hacked piece of script that was reportedly not supposed to have been used for the purposes Ticketmaster were using it.
The Ticketmaster data breach was also identified and reported to the company back in April, yet nothing was done about it.