The UK’s financial regulator has warned UK households struggling with the high cost of living to be on the lookout for fraudsters promising quick and easy loans. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that 40% of adults are concerned about being able to afford Christmas spending this year, rising to half of parents (52%) with […]
Britain’s data protection regulator has warned some of the country’s most visited websites that they risk being fined unless they stop coercing visitors into accepting advertising cookies. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced on Tuesday that the top websites in the United Kingdom had 30 days to comply with the country’s privacy laws or they […]
A former NHS secretary has been fined by the data protection regulator after illegally accessing the medical records of over 150 people. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that a complaint was first lodged back in June 2019, after a patient raised concerns that their records had been improperly accessed by Loretta Alborghetti, from Redditch. […]
Pension providers reported a staggering quadruple-digit percentage increase in data breaches to the UK regulator last year, according to new data compiled by professional services firm RPC. The London-based practice analyzed reports to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the year to June 30 2023. It found that the pension sector suffered just six cyber-attacks […]