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Hayes Connor issues landmark £100 million data breach claim
Thursday, 17 October 2019North West based data breach and cybersecurity specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors is the first in the UK to serve a representative data breach claim in the High Court. The action could see Equifax ordered to pay up to £100 million in compensation to its estimated 15 million UK customers affected by its 2017 data breach.
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Court of Appeal makes ground-breaking ruling on data protection
Friday, 4 October 2019The Court of Appeal made a ruling on 2nd October in the Lloyd v Google case which may open the floodgates to data breach claims. The Court decided that claimants would be entitled to compensation even if the only personal information breached was their email address.
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Hayes Connor highly commended in innovative marketing award
Thursday, 19 September 2019Data breach and cybersecurity specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors was highly commended for its innovative marketing at The Symphony Legal Annual Conference held in Hinckley in September.
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Report exposes lack of sufficient data security amongst employees
Monday, 2 September 2019Research published by Egress has exposed that employees are the biggest threat to an organisation’s data protection obligations showing that attitudes and practices when using and sharing personal information are significantly lacking.
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Hayes Connor Solicitors reports eight-fold increase in data breach claims
Friday, 16 August 2019Data breach and cybersecurity specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors has reported an eight-fold increase in claims in the past 12 months.
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Hayes Connor appointed as data protection supplier to Communication Workers Union
Wednesday, 31 July 2019Data breach and cybersecurity specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors has been appointed to deliver data protection claims support to nearly 200,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU). CWU is the largest union for the communications industry in the UK and includes members from the postal, telecoms, mobile, administration and financial sectors. Members of the organisation include the Royal Mail, Telefonica 02, UK Mail and BT, EE, Virgin Media and Santander.
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Equifax £multi-million US fine entirely preventable
Thursday, 25 July 2019It was announced this week that the credit score giant faces a fine of $700 million (£561 million) following its 2017 data breach – a hefty penalty that could have been avoided. Reports have stated that Equifax was warned in March 2017 that one of its databases was vulnerable to hackers.
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ICO reports increased consumer trust in companies protecting their data
Thursday, 18 July 2019The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its annual report showing that more than a third (34%) of consumers trust organisations to adequately protect their personal information – an increase from 21% the previous year.
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British Airways and Marriott International must put customers before profits
Thursday, 11 July 2019Fourteen months after GDPR came into effect, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has shown its muscle announcing £multi-million fines for British Airways and Marriott International in the same week.
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Hayes Connor Solicitors comments on the news of the ICO’s intention to fine Marriott International
Wednesday, 10 July 2019The ICO has started to show its teeth with two international organisations facing significant fines this week. Marriott International suffered a cyber attack in 2014 affecting millions of its guests yet the incident was not discovered until four years later.
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