I’ve collected some sites/links on data breaches. Some are listed under ‘DataHub’ on the menus on the right columns of this site.
On my ToDo lists is an item to ‘somehow create/use visualisation tools’ to extract and represent the data breaches in the UK that have been reported in the press or elsewhere.
Here’re more links on data breaches (in no particular ordering) in the UK, including other notable data incidents (some requiring registration/account login):
Ecuadorian bank cyber thieves used HSBC accounts in Hong Kong
London NHS trust fined for HIV newsletter data breach
UK charity CALM hacked in ‘senseless’ attack
UK charity gets hacked twice in ‘motiveless’ attack
Scottish charity reports data loss due to unencrypted USB sticks
Data losses on USB sticks – it’s raining again
Third ICO fine in a week after sensitive information widely distributed by webmail
Nationwide fined £1m over laptop theft security breach
More than 170 law firms investigated by ICO over data breaches in 2014
The UK’s 11 most infamous data breaches 2015:
Nationwide Building Society (2006) -
Nationwide fine for stolen laptop
HM Revenue & Customs (2007) –
Another bad day for the database guys
HM Revenue & Customs Child Benefit Office (2008) -
Child benefit data loss: timeline of scandal
IPCC publishes report into missing HMRC data CDs (full version)
Sony PlayStation Network (2011) -
Sony admits huge PlayStation Network data breach
NHS Trust in Brighton (2012) –
NHS Trust receives largest ever data breach fine
Morrison’s supermarket (2014) -
Morrisons supermarket suffers major pay-roll data breach after insider attack
Staffordshire University (2014) -
Staffordshire University stolen laptop had student contacts details
Mumsnet (2014) -
Mumsnet falls to Heartbleed hackers as 1.5 million users reset passwords
Think W3 Limited (2014) -
Online travel services company exposes more than a million customer records to malicious hacker
Moonpig (2015) -
Moonpig Android app flaw puts THREE MILLION accounts at risk
TalkTalk (2014/2015) – various news:
TalkTalk hack: What to do if hackers have your data
TalkTalk: Hacked telecoms giant refusing to let customers leave without paying fees
TalkTalk profits halve after cyber attack
TalkTalk lost more than 100,000 customers after cyber attack