British Airways fined £20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks

British Airways is to pay a £20m data protection fine after its 2018 Magecart hack – even though the Information Commissioner’s Office discovered the airline had been saving credit card details in plain text since 2015. The fine, announced this morning by the UK's data watchdog, is almost exactly at the reduced £19.8m level that BA parent company the International Airlines Group had expected back in August. “The failures are especially serious in circumstances where it is unclear whether or… (www.theregister.com) More...