Cybersecurity
U.K. Merger Watchdog Suffers 150 Data Breaches in Two Years
- CMA handles sensitive information on takeovers, competition
- Declines to say if breaches affected any merger situations
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The U.K. government’s antitrust regulator was hit by 150 personal data breaches in the last two years, as hackers targeted its trove of sensitive business information.
The Competition and Markets Authority found 81 cases of unauthorized disclosure of information and 40 devices were lost or stolen -- two of them unencrypted -- according to freedom of information documents.