Focus Winter 2016
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Clicking on the link or opening the attachment is the fatal step. This is what leads to the delivery of malware or a virus
to compromise your computer system, or to a fake website designed to collect information from you.
Finally, don’t assume companies will protect your data. At every turn we are invited to hand all of our personal
details over to this organisation or that and expected to place our faith blindly because the brand is huge or has a
great reputation or great products or services, and everybody uses them.
DID YOU KNOW?
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Over a quarter of all UK shopping is bought online
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British Christmas shoppers spent £24 billion on-
line last year
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Black Friday Week starts November 25
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2016
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Cyber Monday is November 28
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2016
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Over half all internet users get at least one
phishing email every day
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Phishing attacks rose by a fifth last year and cost
Britain more than £280 million
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Every individual can demand that any company
who holds their personal data tells them exactly
what data they hold. It’s called a Subject Access
Request, and it may cost you £10. If you really
want to be scared, start with your mobile phone
company – you’ll be horrified to find out how
much they know about you!
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90% of UK companies suffer some kind of data
security breach every year
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TalkTalk was fined £400,000 for not bothering to
take the proper security precautions to protect
their customers’ data.
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Identity theft affects 3.25 million UK individuals
every year at a combined loss of £3.6 billion.
Having filled you with festive spirit, we do wish you all a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous new year.
Alastair & Woolfy Tuffill run Data Compliant, a thriving business with offices in London and Suffolk dealing with
day-to-day data protection and training for major companies, ensuring there are no data breaches within their
organisations.
Data Compliant Ltd 01787 277742 dc@datacompliant.co.uk
www.datacompliant.co.uk
www.datacompliantblog.co.uk
@DataCompliant
At Data Compliant we’ve witnessed some absolute horror
stories. It is astounding how many companies just don’t
know the basics of data protection, and have no concept
of data or cyber security and don’t bother to keep their
customers’ details safe.
How much do you know about the privacy policies in place
at your work? Have you received training on how to keep
data safe? Whether you work for a small company or a
huge corporation, everyone needs the same knowledge.
Not only could you be the unlucky one at risk this
Christmas, you could also be the one responsible in your
workplace for jeopardising someone else’s data … big
trouble!
Don’t forget, it took Yahoo two years to admit that half a
billion customers’ details had been hacked. Then there’s
TalkTalk. When a 15-year old boy can hack into a such a
massive organisation from his bedroom, it is clearly time
for us all to be smart about protecting our own – and
other people’s – data.
Internet buyers beware !