Nixon Williams hit by Cyber Security incident

[youngguy]

wait 30 days from the date you sent it. If no answer then they have breached and you can report to the ICO.
They will likely answer so see it provides the answers you need, and if not I'm not sure of the next steps. The clock is ticking though.

Depressingly the ICO is currently taking ~ 3 months to assign a case officer to each case

[Whitelime]

Depressingly the ICO is currently taking ~ 3 months to assign a case officer to each case

Was about to post "please keep us all updated because I'll be waiting until day 31 to speak with the ICO", but obviously that's irrelevant now.

In any case, please keep us updated as you'll hear back from them 3 weeks before me

[Maslins]

Depressingly the ICO is currently taking ~ 3 months to assign a case officer to each case

Ha! I have no experience with this, but have had to raise several complaints about banks to the Financial Ombudsman (FO) over the last few years. The above doesn't surprise me one bit, the FO are the same.

[SueEllen]

Depressingly the ICO is currently taking ~ 3 months to assign a case officer to each case

All regulators are under funded.

[eek]

All regulators are under funded.

+1 - which is why I don't want umbrellas regulated as it won't fix the issue regardless of the opinion of others.

[youngguy]

+1 - which is why I don't want umbrellas regulated as it won't fix the issue regardless of the opinion of others.

I raised something to the FCSA. Got a response saying the CEO would be looking at this personally and their timeframe is 8 weeks.

I'm not going to pre-judge anything (or I will try not to!) but I'll report back to people here as to the process given there is new Leadership in place

[Friday Blue]

oh my days... i wish i wasnt swamped in 7days working since new year. only now i looked on here i realised how bad things are...

i have been with them for about 10 years, every few years they will assign someone more junior...the latest guy picked up my account is probably only just out of primary school...and i ended up explaining to him how VAT Flat Rate Scheme works to him... anyway...thanks for sharing your experience so far, i really thought they would have sorted it all out and just in recovery phase...

[saptastic]

Fyi https://www.contractoruk.com/news/00...its_files.html

Hacked Optionis isn't denying the dark web now hosts 400,000 of its files

[Eirikur]

I haven't read the entire thread so sorry if this has been asked before, I'm a former client of SJD and longer ago also Parasol
The question I have is if a class action lawsuit is being organised for the data breach and if so with which law firm(s)?

[northernladuk]

I haven't read the entire thread so sorry if this has been asked before, I'm a former client of SJD and longer ago also Parasol
The question I have is if a class action lawsuit is being organised for the data breach and if so with which law firm(s)?

You've been watching too much US tv shows. No class action lawsuits in the UK.

The GDPR gives you a right to claim compensation from an organisation if you have suffered damage as a result of it breaking data protection law. This includes both “material damage” (e.g. you have lost money) or “non-material damage” (e.g. you have suffered distress).

Which of these are you claming for? Or are you just jumping on the abulance chasing wagon for a bit of free money?

Have you ever tried to claim against other companies that have lost your data? I'll bet there are quite a few.