British Airways hit with £20m fine for data breach
Fine reduced from initial figure of £183 million because of the pandemic, ICO says
The Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined British Airways £20 million for a 2018 hack that saw credit card and personal data of more than 420,000 people stolen. Customer data was stolen from BA's website...
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