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Richard Forrest, Legal Director at the UK’s leading data breach law firm, Hayes Connor, discusses the potential risks of employees sharing sensitive data on chatbots, as well as providing actionable...
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Law firms and other businesses that are “over-excited” by the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to boost productivity risk inputting sensitive and confidential client information, a data privacy...
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Italy’s recent ban on ChatGPT and a lack of certainty over the chatbot’s GDPR adherence has raised the debate around business’ data privacy rules, says law firm Hayes Connor. Richard...
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A considerable proportion of the population lacks a proper understanding of how generative AI, such as ChatGPT, operates. The consequence of which could result in violation of data compliance regulations,...
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Richard Forrest, Legal Director at the UK’s leading data breach law firm, Hayes Connor, discusses the potential risks of employees sharing sensitive data on chatbots, as well as providing actionable...
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An estimated 14,000 employees at a Liverpool NHS hospital trust have been informed that their data was leaked via email due to human error, according to reports. A file containing...
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Recent concerns have been brought up regarding the use of ChatGPT and the dangers which come with utilising the AI chatbot system. This includes businesses that use ChatGPT as they...
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Richard Forrest, Legal Director at Hayes Connor, was featured on Radio 4’s You and Yours program on Wednesday, providing an expert opinion on the Arnold Clark Data Breach. You can...
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Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estates over unpaid rent relating to its Piccadilly Circus-based headquarters building. The Crown Estates manages property for King Charles III and the monarchy,...
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Among shocking internal revelations about its content moderation practices and massive data breaches, it’s pretty hard for Twitter to stay out of the public eye. The culprit, this time, is...
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Victims of a cyber attack fear their details could be available on the dark web after employee payroll details were targeted, solicitors have said. South Staffs Water revealed in August...
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This study offers some useful insights into how data hackers target particular sectors of the economy. It is worth noting that Health is the top target and insurance brands who...
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Local authorities are one of the top offenders for data breaches across the UK, a new analysis has revealed. UK data breach solicitors, Hayes Connor, have analysed the ICO’s ongoing...
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A vulnerable Weston-super-Mare woman was left “horrified” when she discovered that her police records featured incorrect medical information including a fictitious diagnosis of ‘split personality, violent when not medicated’ and...
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An autistic woman has received a £5,500 payout from Avon and Somerset Police after they held “false and misleading” information about her on police records for years. Emma*, who spoke...
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More than 100 current and former employees of a car dealership with sites in the Midlands and the North West have launched legal action after their personal data was accessed...
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A group of current and former employees of a major UK-based convenience food manufacturer are considering legal action after it emerged that the company had been affected by a data...
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Legal action is being taken by 106 current and former staff members from Mercedes dealership LSH Auto, which has sites in Erdington and Solihull. A sophisticated cyber attack at a...
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Customers of the conveyancing firm Simplify Group are planning to launch legal action after some have seen their property purchases stalled for more than a month following a data breach....
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The UK’s highest court has today blocked a £3billion legal action against Google over allegations it secretly tracked millions of iPhone users’s internet activity. Former Which? director Richard Lloyd, who had...
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Richard Forrest, Legal Director at Hayes Connor solicitors participated in a round table discussion for the law society last week to discuss client service. Click here to read the full...
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A woman from Bristol has been awarded £3,000 in compensation after discovering Tesco had lost 15 years of her employment records, including sensitive medical information. Jacqueline Ogborne worked for the...
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After recent reports that half of Britain’s manufacturers have fallen victim to cyber-crime over the past 12 months, many industry leaders should be asking the same question – how can...
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Hayes Connor Legal Director Richard Forrest recently sat down with Radio City to discuss the surge in cybercrime across the Merseyside region over the past 12 months. Radio City looked...
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The team at Hayes Connor are pleased to announce that they have officially moved offices and are now located at The Outset on Sankey Street in Warrington. Having been located...
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With the global pandemic forcing the majority of the workforce to work from home indefinitely, data breaches and data security have been at the forefront of business concerns. Data breaches have...
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High Street banks are braced for a spike in so-called payment redirection fraud thanks to the stamp duty holiday. Lender Santander said it had seen a 47% rise in this...
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A woman has received £7,000 in compensation after Avon and Somerset Police used a video of an autism hate crime she reported without her consent. The North Somerset woman, dubbed...
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Our data breach experts have been popping up in the press a lot over the last month – including Christine Sabino speaking to the BBC about the data protection risks...
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Peter says that the cyber-attacks on his company are relentless. “We see tens of different hacking attacks every single week. It is never ending.” A senior computer network manager for...
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Christine Sabino, senior associate at data breach claims experts Hayes Connor solicitors, takes you through the medical technology that might put you at risk of data breach. The impact of...
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Christine Sabino, Senior Associate at Hayes Connor, explains why password protection is so important and advises how you can protect your passwords from fraud In a world where our online profile...
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The changes to our working world due to the Covid-19 pandemic have brought positives and negatives. While it has undoubtedly been a scary and stressful time, many of us have...
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Christine Sabino, Senior Associate at Hayes Connor, explores concerns over the ways universities are using student data. Life for university students has changed massively during the coronavirus pandemic, as it...
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Cybersecurity and data breaches are closely connected. Without good cybersecurity practices, data breaches are all but inevitable. And, as our recent research shows, a huge number of companies are falling...
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With the amount of sensitive data estate agents hold, a data breach could be catastrophic. Richard Forrest from Hayes Connor tells us how you can avoid this… As an estate...
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While prevention is the best form of defence, all businesses are ultimately susceptible to cyber-attacks if a vulnerability is found. Richard Forrest, Senior Associate at data breach law firm, Hayes...
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You’ve probably heard the words ‘data breach’, but what exactly does this mean? The year 2020 has, quite possibly, been one of the craziest and most terrifying to date. We...
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Richard Forrest, Senior Associate at Hayes Connor, is interviewed by Jason Remillard on the ins and outs of cyber security and data protection for businesses. Find out a little more...
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Hayes Connor, the UK’s leading data breach law firm, have a new management team. What will this mean for the future of their business? Arriving on the scene in 2018,...
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With a second lockdown a very real possibility, are we in danger of further cyber security threats? Richard Forrest, Senior Associate at Hayes Connor discusses The UK government has put...
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With 65,000 data breach attempts occurring daily, and millions of UK employees still working from home, are companies doing enough to keep customers’ data safe? Since the adoption of GDPR...
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A Stockport woman is warning people to be vigilant when transferring large sums of money after falling victim to sophisticated payment fraud just nine days before Christmas in 2018 leaving...
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Data breach and cybercrime specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors has been shortlisted by the Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Awards 2020 for the Boutique Law Firm of the Year (11+ Employees) and...
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Robust cybersecurity is front of stage again as news of two attempted cyber attacks on Labour were exposed. The party has claimed that no personal data has been breached in...
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Research published by Egress has exposed that employees are the biggest threat to an organisation’s data protection obligations showing that attitudes and practices when using and sharing personal information are...
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The government’s annual Cybersecurity Breaches Survey 2019 has revealed that the overall figures for identified data breach or cybersecurity incidents had decreased from 43% in 2018 to 32% in 2019,...
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As the legal sector continues to embrace technology, the industry remains at high risk of data breaches either through human error or malicious cyber attacks according to specialist Hayes Connor...
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