{"id":22026,"date":"2020-10-18T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22026"},"modified":"2020-10-18T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T06:33:18","slug":"british-airways-fined-20m-over-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/10\/18\/british-airways-fined-20m-over-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways fined \u00a320m over data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British Airways has been fined \u00a320m ($26m) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a data breach which affected more than 400,000 customers.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The breach took place in 2018 and affected both personal and credit card data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The fine is considerably smaller than the \u00a3183m that the ICO originally said it intended to issue back in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It said “the economic impact of Covid-19” had been taken into account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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However, it is still the largest penalty issued by the ICO to date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The incident took place when BA’s systems were compromised by its attackers, and then modified to harvest customers’ details as they were input.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was two months before BA was made aware of it by a security researcher, and then notified the ICO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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