Hacked and hacked off: without change this new data law will fail victims | Alex Neill
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Your name, your email address, your home address, your bank details, your credit or debit card details. You probably cannot count the number of times that you have been asked to share these important pieces of personal data with a company or organisation in the past weeks or months. As more and more of us report sharing an ever increasing volume of our personal information online, is enough being done to keep it safe?
The more information we share, the greater the risk there is of us falling victim to a data breach. While in some cases you may just need to update all your passwords, the loss of more important, personal data could have serious consequences, including leaving you at greater risk of being subject to fraud. Over the past year, we have seen reports of high-profile hacks of numerous organisations - Yahoo, Uber and Equifax to name just three.
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