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Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm
2021-07-07 17:10

The British Airways data breach not-quite-a-class-action hasn't ended after all, a rival to yesterday's law firm has told The Register. Following PGMBM's announcement that it has settled its case with the airline over the theft of nearly 400,000 people's personal data - including some credit card details - rival outfit Your Lawyers says its own case against BA is still ongoing.

British Airways Settles Class Action Over 2018 Data Breach
2021-07-06 15:46

British Airways has settled a class action brought by individuals impacted by the data breach suffered by the company in 2018, but terms of the settlement have been kept private. Stolen information in the case of British Airways included names, payment card data, addresses, and email addresses.

British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away
2021-07-06 12:58

British Airways has settled the not-quite-a-class-action* lawsuit against it, potentially paying millions of pounds to make the data breach case in the High Court of England and Wales go away. "The resolution includes provision for compensation for qualifying claimants who were part of the litigation. The resolution does not include any admission of liability by British Airways Plc," said PGMBM. The lawsuit was based on the 2018 BA data breach, where the credit card details of 380,000 people were stolen thanks to a Magecart infection on its payment processing pages.

British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up around £30m to make sueball bounce away
2021-07-06 12:58

British Airways has settled the not-quite-a-class-action* lawsuit against it, potentially paying millions of pounds to make the data breach case in the High Court of England and Wales go away. "The resolution includes provision for compensation for qualifying claimants who were part of the litigation. The resolution does not include any admission of liability by British Airways Plc," said PGMBM. The lawsuit was based on the 2018 BA data breach, where the credit card details of 380,000 people were stolen thanks to a Magecart infection on its payment processing pages.

British tourists charged £1000s for pier visits in billing blunder
2021-06-25 11:52

British seaside resorts are famous for their piers, walkways that stretch out over the sea so that visitors can get the feeling of being "At sea" without actually boarding a boat and risking sea-sickness, and without even having to set foot on the shingles/gravel/mudflats/sand of the beach at all. Fortunately for the operators of the Palace Pier in Brighton, England, a relaxation in English lockdown rules from early April 2021 meant that visitors could return.

Spy agency GCHQ told me Gmail's more secure than Microsoft 365, insists British MP as facepalming security bods tell him to zip it
2021-04-14 09:16

Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat has publicly claimed GCHQ sources told him Gmail was more secure than Parliament's own Microsoft Office 365 deployment - but both Parliament and a GCHQ offshoot have told him to stop being silly. "I was told by friends at GCHQ that I was better off sticking to Gmail rather than using the parliamentary system because it was more secure," Tugendhat told the BBC's Today Programme.

Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds
2021-04-13 09:27

An academic researcher has analysed more than 100 Computer Misuse Act cases to paint a picture of the sort of computer-enabled criminals who not only plagued Great Britain's digital doings in the 21st Century but were also caught by the plod. The average Computer Misuse Act convict is likely to be a semi- or low-skilled individual, mostly working alone and more likely than not to have no knowledge of his or her victim, James Crawford of Royal Holloway, University of London, found.

Average British computer criminal is young, male and not highly skilled, researcher finds
2021-04-13 09:27

An academic researcher has analysed more than 100 Computer Misuse Act cases to paint a picture of the sort of computer-enabled criminals who not only plagued Great Britain's digital doings in the 21st Century but were also caught by the plod. The average Computer Misuse Act convict is likely to be a semi- or low-skilled individual, mostly working alone and more likely than not to have no knowledge of his or her victim, James Crawford of Royal Holloway, University of London, found.

Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with remote-access worm
2021-01-21 17:32

A shipment of laptops supplied to British schools by the Department for Education to help kids learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register can reveal. The affected laptops, distributed to schools under the UK government's Get Help With Technology scheme, which started last year, came bundled with Gamarue - an old remote-access worm from the 2010s.

Julian Assange will NOT be extradited to the US over WikiLeaks hacking and spy charges, rules British judge
2021-01-04 12:43

Accused hacker and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser told Assange this morning that there was no legal obstacle to his being sent to the US, where he faces multiple criminal charges under America's Espionage Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act over his WikiLeaks website.