{"id":3488,"date":"2018-10-22T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/morrisons-loses-data-leak-challenge\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:39:15","slug":"morrisons-loses-data-leak-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/morrisons-loses-data-leak-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrisons loses data leak challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Morrisons store\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16B0C\/production\/_91204929_mizqd24r.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Morrisons has lost its challenge to a High Court ruling that it is liable for a data breach that saw thousands of its employees&#8217; details posted online.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Workers brought a claim against the company after employee Andrew Skelton stole the data, including salary and bank details, of nearly 100,000 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Those affected can now claim compensation for &#8220;upset and distress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the first data leak class action in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a security breach in 2014 when Skelton, then a senior internal auditor at the retailer&#8217;s Bradford headquarters, leaked the payroll data of employees.<\/p>\n<p>He posted the information &#8211; including names, addresses, bank account details and salaries &#8211; online and and sent it to newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>He was jailed for eight years in 2015 after being found guilty at Bradford Crown Court of fraud, securing unauthorised access to computer material and disclosing personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Morrisons had argued that it could not be held liable for the criminal misuse of its data.<\/p>\n<p>But three Court of Appeal judges rejected the company&#8217;s appeal, saying they agreed with the High Court&#8217;s earlier decision.<\/p>\n<p>They said Morrisons was &#8220;vicariously liable for the torts committed by Mr Skelton against the claimants&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45943735\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Morrisons has lost its challenge to a High Court ruling that it is liable for a data breach that saw thousands of its employees&#8217; details posted online. The Court of Appeal upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017. Workers brought a claim against the company after employee Andrew &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}