BA Data Breach: The Real Cost of Negligence

BA Data Breach: The Real Cost of Negligence

£20 Million Later: How British Airways Paid the Price for a Preventable Privacy Breach In today’s digital economy, data is both an asset and a liability—and nowhere was this more evident than in the British Airways (BA) data breach. In 2020, the airline was fined £20 million by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), one of the largest penalties ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the UK. The fine stemmed…