UK Fines Water Supplier $1.3M for Exposing Data of 664k Customers

ICO fines Cambridge Water parent company £963,000 over major cyber‑attack and data breach

The breach resulted in the personal information of 633,887 people being published on the dark web.

UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers

The Information Commissioner's Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees.

UK: Regulator fines water company almost £1m for cybersecurity failures

Maxine Brigue reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined utility company South Staffordshire Water £963,900 after a cyber attack that resulted in users’ personal information being extracted and published on the dark web. The fine was issued last week (7 May) after a cyber attack ran from September 2020 to July 2022 and exposed the data... Source

South Staffs Water fined almost £1M after IT hack and data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc (together South Staffordshire) £963,900 following a major cyber-attack and data breach which took place in 2022. The post South Staffs Water fined almost £1M after IT hack and data breach appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

South Staffs Water fined £964k after data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office is urging organisations to review their cyber resilience after nearly 634,000 people, including employees, had their... The post South Staffs Water fined £964k after data breach appeared first on Personnel Today.

ICO fines water company £1m over data breach affecting 630,000 people

The UK’s privacy regulator has concluded that a major utility company providing services to about three quarters of a million people had ‘inadequate’ measures protecting data and systems from attack The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined a major water company nearly a million pounds after “inadequate” security measures failed to prevent a data breach that affected hundreds of thousands of people. South Staffordshire Plc and its primary …