1,000,000 lost credit cards = £150,000 fine

A UK travel company has been fined £150,000 for putting an “internal only” parking database system on the internet without securing it first. The vulnerable system was used as a stepping stone for a crook to steal more than 1M e-commerce records.

Child abuse images dragnet snares 660 suspected paedophiles

Doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers – all professions that entail unsupervised access to children – were among 660 who’ve been arrested in an unprecedented child abuse image dragnet in the UK.