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The research shows that recovery from a breach took more than 100 days

Average cost of a data breach rises to €4.5m

The global average cost of a data breach has reached €4.49 million in 2024, an increase of 10% on the previous year.

Qantas Airways is investigating issues impacting its frequent flyer application

Qantas probing reports of data breach at loyalty app

Australia's Qantas Airways said today it was investigating issues impacting its frequent flyer application, after media reports suggested there was a data breach allowing users access to other passengers' travel information.

Business • 01 May 24

The Department of Health headquarters in Dublin

Department of Health welcomed data breach fine level

The Department of Health believed they were lucky to escape with a €22,500 fine for a major data breach that involved "excessive and disproportionate" gathering of sensitive personal information about people who had taken legal action against the state.

Business • 28 Nov 23

Files stolen also included client names, addresses, date of birth and corporate company names

Morgan Stanley's client info stolen in vendor hack

Morgan Stanley has disclosed that personal data of some of its corporate clients was stolen in January in a data breach that involved a third-party vendor and hackers accessed information, including social security numbers.

Business • 09 Jul 21

British Airways revealed a breach of its security systems in 2018 that caused the personal data of 420,000 staff and customers to be leaked

British Airways settles with 2018 data breach victims

British Airways has settled a case brought by customers and staff affected by a massive 2018 data breach that led to personal information being leaked, the court-appointed lead solicitors in the case said today.

Business • 06 Jul 21

EA, the publisher of titles such as 'Battlefield' and 'Apex Legends', said it does not expect the data breach to have an impact on its games or business

Electronic Arts says investigating recent data breach

Electronic Arts is investigating a recent data breach, where some of its game source code and related tools were stolen, the videogame publisher said today.

Business • 11 Jun 21

British Airways has been fined £20m for failing to protect data that left over 400,000 of its customers' details the subject of a 2018 cyber attack

British Airways hit with data watchdog's biggest fine

The UK data protection watchdog said it has fined British Airways £20m - its biggest such penalty to date - for failing to protect data that left more than 400,000 of its customers' details the subject of a 2018 cyber attack.

Business • 16 Oct 20

Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 but the breach was not disclosed until November last year.

Data breach lands Marriott chain £99m fine

Hotel chain Marriott is facing a fine of £99 million over a data breach which is estimated to have affected around 339 million customers.

Business • 09 Jul 19

BA said around 380,000 card payments were 'compromised' in latest technological mishaps suffered by the airline

British Airways website suffers data breach

British Airways was forced to apologise today after the credit card details of hundreds of thousands of its customers were stolen over a two-week period in the worst ever attack on its website and app.

Business • 07 Sep 18

Eir said that an unencrypted laptop was stolen on Sunday 12 August

37,000 Eir customers affected by data breach

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers have been affected by a data breach, the telecommunications company has said.

Business • 22 Aug 18

Dixons Carphone said the 1.2 million personal data records that were hacked saw non-financial personal data, such as name, address or email address, accessed

Dixons Carphone uncovers unauthorised access of data

Dixons Carphone has become the latest company to fall victim to a cyber attack after revealing 5.9 million customer bank card details and 1.2 million personal data records were hacked.

Business • 13 Jun 18

The DPC are currently establishing the parameters of the investigation

Commissioner to investigate alleged INM data breach

The Data Protection Commissioner intends to investigate whether personal data was accessed in an alleged data breach at Independent News & Media.

Business • 03 Apr 18

Equifax said hackers gained access to certain files that included names, social security numbers and driver's licence numbers

Criticism of Equifax's data breach response mounts

Equifax shares tumbled as much as 18% today as cyber security experts and customers criticised its response to a hack that may have stolen personal details of up to 143 million Americans.

Business • 08 Sep 17

61% of organisations had data breach in 2016

Almost two thirds (61%) of organisations have had at least one data breach in the last year, an increase on the previous year, according to a new survey of 200 professionals.

News • 19 Jan 17

The personal details of the employees of about 280 British companies were potentially exposed in the breach

Sage data breach could expose details of UK firms

Sage Group, a provider of accounting, payroll and payments software for businesses, said an internal login had been used to gain unauthorised access to the data of some of its British customers.

Business • 15 Aug 16

T-Mobile said the data included names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, driver’s licence numbers and passport numbers

Data of 15m people exposed in US T-Mobile breach

Experian, the world's biggest consumer credit monitoring firm, has disclosed a massive data breach that exposed sensitive personal data of some 15m people who applied for service with T-Mobile in the United States.

Business • 02 Oct 15

A US law enforcement official has said a foreign entity or government is believed to be behind the data breach

Foreign entity or govt suspected of US data breach

A US law enforcement official has said a foreign entity or government is believed to be behind a major US government data breach.

News • 05 Jun 15

The breach includes names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses for up to 70 million people, Target said

Data breach at US retailer affected 70m customers

Giant US retailer Target has said its recent data breach affected about 70 million customers, more than it initially estimated, and that the hacking incident had hit December sales.

Business • 10 Jan 14

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