Compromised data was on a development server and included personal details on 780,000 job applicants
Compliance
East Thames housing association ‘cloud first’ with iland
Disaster-recovery-as-a-service using Zerto technology is helping association overcome compliance problems
BT, Dropbox, Google forced to change cloud storage terms
Competition and Markets Authority continues its fight for better terms on behalf of cloud users
Vodafone fined £4.6 million for customer billing disaster
Vodafone blames ‘complex’ billing system migration for the biggest fine ever issued by Ofcom for ‘serious and sustained’ breaches of consumer rules
Software snitches don’t get stitches they get FAST payment
Federation Against Software Theft offers bounties to channel individuals who report software ‘crimes’
IT consultant banned for eight years after not paying tax
Takes £423,000 for himself and his family before liquidating the IT services company
TalkTalk fined £400,000 for last year’s data breach
Get your security properly in place before the arrival of GDPR and even bigger fines firms are told
Micro Focus acquires another American data firm
British titan takes it to the yanks again in expanding data management space
ICO says GDPR will be in force before Brexit
UK companies will have to work towards the new data protection rules despite Brexit
Actiance moves in on ‘stranded’ Autonomy users
HPE announced it is selling the Autonomy business and other ‘non-core’ assets to British firm Micro Focus
