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Current and former employees of WH Smith have been informed that their data has been breached following a recent cyber-attack. The high street retailer has confirmed that hackers were able...
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Sportwear chain JD Sports have revealed that they have been subject to a significant cyber-attack, resulting in data belonging to 10 million customers being put at risk. In an email...
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Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estates over unpaid rent relating to its Piccadilly Circus-based headquarters building. The Crown Estates manages property for King Charles III and the monarchy,...
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Phishing links pose a number of potential risks to the uninitiated. Legal Director Richard Forrest discusses what might happen if a phishing link is clicked and what support Hayes Connor...
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Among shocking internal revelations about its content moderation practices and massive data breaches, it’s pretty hard for Twitter to stay out of the public eye. The culprit, this time, is...
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Medical data is often extremely sensitive and highly personal. Legal Director Christine Sabino addresses many of the concerns individuals have when they learn that their medical data has been lost...
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Legal Director Richard Forrest runs through the steps that you need to take if you learn that your employer has been hacked, including your options for making a data breach...
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14 schools across the UK have been subject to substantial cyber attacks, resulting in the loss of highly confidential data and documents. This data has subsequently been leaked on the...
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Victims of a cyber attack fear their details could be available on the dark web after employee payroll details were targeted, solicitors have said. South Staffs Water revealed in August...
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This study offers some useful insights into how data hackers target particular sectors of the economy. It is worth noting that Health is the top target and insurance brands who...
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Local authorities are one of the top offenders for data breaches across the UK, a new analysis has revealed. UK data breach solicitors, Hayes Connor, have analysed the ICO’s ongoing...
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October has come to an end, but throughout the month there has been a number of data breaches across the UK and internationally, including the banking, insurance and government sectors....
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As we head into the colder autumn months of the year towards Christmas, there is no stopping the data breaches, with two incidents affecting the education sector alone. Here you...
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In our current digital landscape, personal data can be incredibly valuable, especially to criminals. Individuals provide their personal data to a multitude of different organisations, and if those organisations do...
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South Staffordshire PLC have written to current and former employees to confirm that personal data has been compromised following a cyber-attack against subsidiary company South Staffordshire Water. In August, South...
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The UK’s industry-leading recruitment company, Acorn Recruitment, experienced a serious cyber attack earlier this year, resulting in a number of consumers’ financial and identification information being compromised. The Hayes Connor...
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A leading PVC-U roofing products manufacturer and distributor has contacted current and former employees, including some in the West Midlands, to inform them that a cyber attack on the company...
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Eurocell, a PVC-U manufacturer and distributor based in Derbyshire, have contacted current and former employees after suffering a cyber-attack that led to a substantial data breach. The company sent out...
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The UK saw some scorching hot days up and down the country in the month of July, with temperatures hitting an all-time high of 40.3 degrees Celsius in the East....
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The longest day of the year has since passed us, but it hasn’t stopped these beautiful long summer days or, more importantly, strings of data breaches from happening, with four...
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A vulnerable Weston-super-Mare woman was left “horrified” when she discovered that her police records featured incorrect medical information including a fictitious diagnosis of ‘split personality, violent when not medicated’ and...
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An autistic woman has received a £5,500 payout from Avon and Somerset Police after they held “false and misleading” information about her on police records for years. Emma*, who spoke...
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German windfarm operator Deutsche Windtechnik is the latest company to be impacted by a cyber attack following a string of incidents against several German energy providers. The incident has resulted...
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In a human error blunder, personal data belonging to around 100 vulnerable special educational needs (SEND) students was exposed after a freedom of information (FOI) was requested from the Central...
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April has certainly been a busy month. With fewer April showers and more sunny days, you can almost taste the sweet smell of summer. But there doesn’t seem to be...
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Personal details of more than 400 University of Essex students have been exposed in a data breach, the university has confirmed in a statement. Hayes Connor is already representing a...
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Cyber criminals claim to have obtained sensitive information about employees of decorating supplier company Graham & Brown in a cyberattack that happened in February this year. In a letter to...
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Funky Pigeon, owned by popular UK retailer WH Smith, has suspended all online orders following concerns that personal data belonging to customers has been exposed during a cyber attack. The...
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Customers of bed and mattress specialists Emma Sleep UK have been informed that their data has been exposed following a cyber-attack that took place between January and March 2022. In...
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We’re full speed ahead into Spring, and as expected, we’re being blessed with longer nights and warmer weather. But unfortunately, that doesn’t bring an end to data breaches. Here you...
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More than 100 current and former employees of a car dealership with sites in the Midlands and the North West have launched legal action after their personal data was accessed...
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A group of current and former employees of a major UK-based convenience food manufacturer are considering legal action after it emerged that the company had been affected by a data...
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Leading supplier of coffee machines and coffee products, UCC Coffee UK & Ireland, has experienced a data breach following a cyber-attack, putting employees’ personal data at risk. In a letter...
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As we make our way towards the end of winter and into spring, there seems to be no stopping data breach incidents from occurring across the UK. Here you will...
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Legal action is being taken by 106 current and former staff members from Mercedes dealership LSH Auto, which has sites in Erdington and Solihull. A sophisticated cyber attack at a...
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A new year means new data breaches to report. The educational sector was hit the hardest in January, with three school data breaches being reported. Here we report a brief...
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Contractors working for the Parasol umbrella company are currently questioning why the details of a suspected ransomware attack that took place five weeks ago are still yet to come to...
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The festivities of December didn’t bring a halt to data breaches, as various incidents took place in various industries, leaving businesses in hot water and personal data out in the...
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Customers of the conveyancing firm Simplify Group are planning to launch legal action after some have seen their property purchases stalled for more than a month following a data breach....
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A cyber-attack against a group of conveyancing brands owned by Simplify Group left thousands of home buyers unable to complete their purchases – as well as opening them up to...
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With the festive season drawing closer, November was as busy a month as ever in the world of data breaches, with plenty of high-profile incidents taking place in various industries....
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The Lister Fertility Clinic have informed around 1,700 patients that the third-party responsible for scanning medical records on their behalf has been hacked by a cyber-gang, leading to a significant...
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The UK’s highest court has today blocked a £3billion legal action against Google over allegations it secretly tracked millions of iPhone users’s internet activity. Former Which? director Richard Lloyd, who had...
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Data Breach firm Pure Legal Limited entered administration on Tuesday 2 November 2021 following the appointment of Robert Armstrong, Michael Lennon and James Saunders of Kroll Advisory Ltd as joint...
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Richard Forrest, Legal Director at Hayes Connor solicitors participated in a round table discussion for the law society last week to discuss client service. Click here to read the full...
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October was another busy in the data breach industry, with plenty of high-profile incidents taking place in a number of different sectors. This is our short roundup of the most...
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In a letter sent out in October, to affected people, The Salvation Army has confirmed that personal data was exposed in a data breach that took place earlier in 2021....
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A woman from Bristol has been awarded £3,000 in compensation after discovering Tesco had lost 15 years of her employment records, including sensitive medical information. Jacqueline Ogborne worked for the...
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September was as busy a month as ever in the world of data breaches, with plenty of high-profile incidents taking place in a number of different sectors. This is our...
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August has been and gone, with plenty more data breaches taking place in a variety of different sectors. This is our short roundup of the most significant data breaches that...
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