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UK: Regulator fines water company almost £1m for cybersecurity failures

·Source: DataBreaches.net

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Executive Summary

Maxine Brigue reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined utility company South Staffordshire Water £963,900 after a cyber attack that resulted in users’ personal information being extracted and published on the dark web. The fine was issued last week (7 May) after a cyber attack ran from September 2020 to July 2022 and exposed the data... Source

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Maxine Brigue reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined utility company South Staffordshire Water £963,900 after a cyber attack that resulted in users’ personal information being extracted and published on the dark web. The fine was issued last week (7 May) after a cyber attack ran from September 2020 to July 2022 and exposed the data... Source
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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on May 13, 2026.

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