UK Firm Gets £60K Fine After Pen Test Failure

Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has sent a warning shot across the bows of the UK’s SMEs, fining one company £60,000 after a cyber-attack took advantage of poorly protected web infrastructure. Video game rental business Boomerang Video failed to follow best practice security steps and subsequently suffered an attack which exposed the personal details of over 26,000 customers, the ICO revealed.

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