Case Studies

Real examples of privacy breaches and data protection incidents. These articles examine credit card theft, social media security, corporate data leaks, and the impact of cyber crime.

Banks and Your Data: Why It's Still Getting Lost

Banks keep losing your data through their own mistakes, not yours, and it's costing them millions in fines.

Big Business and Wikileaks

How Wikileaks has exposed financial secrets that major corporations and wealthy individuals would rather keep hidden.

Data Leaks: Are IT Department to Blame?

IT staff are most likely to deliberately leak company data, often on Tuesdays and usually via laptops or removable drives.

Facebook Security Tips to Keep Your Details Private

Adjust your Facebook privacy settings to control who sees your personal information and keep your account secure.

Making a Data Protection Act Enquiry

How to request personal information held about you by public bodies under the Data Protection Act.

My Credit Card Details Were Stolen: A Case Study

How one woman's credit card was fraudulently used while she was abroad and what she did to stop it.

Online Dating Sites and Data Breaches

Popular dating sites like eHarmony have suffered data breaches, exposing user passwords and personal information to hackers.

The True Cost of Cyber Crime

Cyber crime costs the UK £27bn yearly, but the real figure is likely far higher because most attacks go unreported.

What Is Wikileaks?

Wikileaks is a whistleblowing site that publishes leaked government and corporate documents, operating since 2006 despite controversy.