British Airways faces record £183.4m fine over data theft
'People's personal data is just that — personal,' says UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham
08 July 2019 - 16:55
London — British Airways (BA)-owner IAG is facing a record £183.4m fine for the theft of data from 500,000 customers from its website in 2018 under tough new data-protection rules policed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
The ICO proposed a penalty of £183.4m, or 1.5% of British Airways’s 2017 worldwide turnover, for the hack, which it said exposed poor security arrangements at the airline...
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