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Tough attitude from ICO on Talk Talk breach highlights issue for data protection regulations

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Insurance lawyers believe the Talk Talk data breach has highlighted important issues in time for the forthcoming 2018 data protection regulations.

Following a data breach that saw the personal data of almost 157,000 customers being stolen, Talk Talk has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office.

The ICO said that it had failed

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