BA fined record £20m for customer data breach
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#595SR)
Personal details of more than 400,000 customers accessed by hackers in 2018
A 183m fine levied on British Airways for a data breach has been reduced to 20m after investigators took into account the airline's financial plight and the circumstances of the cyber-attack.
The 20m fine is nonetheless the biggest ever issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), following the 2018 incident in which more than 400,000 customers' personal details were compromised by hackers.
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