Category: Data Breach Claims
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.