Bloomberg Law
May 22, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

U.K. Privacy Authority Fines University for Security Breach

Sara Merken

The United Kingdom’s data security office for the first time fined a university under its data protection law.

The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office fined the University of Greenwich 120,000 pounds, or about $161,000, after a “serious” security breach of nearly 20,000 individuals’ personal information. The university did not have appropriate measures in place to protect its systems from hackers under the Data Protection Act of 1998, according to a May 21 ICO statement.

The episode traces back to 2004, when an academic and student created a microsite on a web server for an event in the university’s computing and ...

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