Who’s the leakiest of them all? It’s the UK’s public sector, breach fine analysis reveals

From theregister.co.uk

Despite the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently slapping record megafines on British Airways and Marriott for data leakage, it’s actually the UK’s public sector that racked up the biggest volume of breaches in the last eight years.

Since 2010, the ICO has handed out 216 fines totalling £23.5m (excluding the BA and Marriott), according to data crunched by API company SMS Works.

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