IBM published its Cost of a Data Breach Report last month, and the headline figure is the one everyone will quote: the global average cost of a breach has hit a record $4.99 million, a 12% increase on last year. In the UK specifically, that average sits at around $4.27 million (£3.13 million). Numbers like
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I was in Croatia when the alert went out. The first I knew about it was a flurry of messages from friends back home, then the memes, then a few clients asking whether they should be doing anything differently. Nobody’s phone in our group had gone off, because none of us were on a UK
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This afternoon, a power failure at a communications centre brought major disruption to rail services across the Midlands and north-west England. Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern, Northern, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales were all affected. Not one operator having a bad day. Seven, at once, because of a single point
Few stories illustrate the gap between “what data subjects think they agreed to” and “what actually happens to their data” as vividly as the one that broke in June 2026. Millions of people who spent years scanning parks, murals and landmarks to catch Pokémon on their smartphones have discovered that those scans didn’t stay in
