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It has not yet clear how many passengers were affected by the data breach relating to boarding passes issued for flights during August, but RTÉ News understands it may be in the hundreds of thousands. In August 3.8 million passenger Read More …
Heathrow is among several European airports hit by a cyber-attack affecting an electronic check-in and baggage system. The airport warned of possible delays due to a “technical issue” affecting software provided by Collins Aerospace to several airlines. Brussels Airport said Read More …
TikTok has been hit with a €530 million penalty by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating EU privacy laws following a probe into the platform’s transfer of European user data to China. The watchdog found that the company Read More …
The High Court has ordered Bank of Ireland to pay a €350K settlement to a woman and her partner, who alleged her data was released to her estranged father, who then used it to find the couple abroad and stalk Read More …
The Department of Justice has recorded more than 480 data breaches over the past three years, including the loss of sensitive papers, encrypted devices, and unauthorised access to social media. The breaches occurred across the department including key areas such Read More …
An international NCA-led investigation – Operation Destabilise – has exposed and disrupted Russian money laundering networks supporting serious and organised crime around the world: spanning from the streets of the UK, to the Middle East, Russia, and South America. Investigators Read More …
A woman has been arrested over a potential data breach at a national utility service provider last year. The woman, aged in her 20s, was arrested yesterday and is detained at a garda station in Dublin. The potential breach was Read More …
There have been 6,885 data breaches across Government departments over the last ten years. More than half of the breaches, 3,637 of them, occurred at the Department of Social Protection. The Department of Justice accounted for 862 of the breaches, Read More …
An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 million) for password-security breaches. The Data Protection Commission criticised Meta for failing to put in place appropriate security measures Read More …
More than 470 legal proceedings have been issued against the Health Service Executive (HSE) in relation to a cyber attack that shutdown the health service’s IT systems and compromised the data of thousands of patients and staff three years ago. Read More …