Tough attitude from ICO on Talk Talk breach highlights issue for data protection regulations
Insurance lawyers believe the Talk Talk data breach has highlighted important issues in time for the forthcoming 2018 data protection regulations.
Following a data breach that saw the personal data of almost 157,000 customers being stolen, Talk Talk has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office.
The ICO said that it had failed
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