Last week I said there would be more to come on this story – and there was… M&S stops online orders and issues refunds after cyber attack – BBC News Mixed Messaging It appears to me that the main complaint from customers is not that services are unavailable or that …
Marks and Spencer Cyber Attack
There are no details about the attack yet, or whether customer information has been compromised – but the attack has impacted the online shopping and “click and collect” service – which probably use customer information to function. Marks & Spencer confirms a cyberattack as customers face delayed orders No ransomware …
Privacy and Sharing
Here is a case of trust and privacy gone very wrong. I gave my DNA to tracking company – then it vanished – BBC News Who knows what will happen. Your Takeaway This story should make you think about the information you hold and the steps you take to keep …
Business data breaches leak customer data
If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …
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Another police force suffers a data leak
The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
