The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Interserve £4.4m following a data breach. Of interest to law firms, the breaches included outdated systems, inadequate endpoint security, and failure to train staff in relation to phishing emails.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Morgan Stanley $35m for exposing customers’ data by disposing of unencrypted back up drives and tapes through an intermediary which auctioned them online without first erasing them.
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