British Airways breach could cost billions in landmark class-action push
By Neil Hodge2021-01-15T15:12:00+00:00 British Airways (BA) faces the largest group claim ever made in U.K. legal history over a 2018 data breach that exposed the financial and personal details of more than 400,000 of its customers. Last October, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the U.K.’s data regulator, fined BA £20 million (U.S. $26 million) for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—the largest penalty it has ever imposed. “The question of whether the ICO has arrived at the right final figure may become immaterial and could begin to undermi...