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Data Breach Compensation
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How To Make A Claim For Data Breach Compensation
If you’ve been impacted by a data breach, there are a number of steps you can take to begin the process of seeking compensation.
Usually, if your personal information has been exposed, the organisation responsible should notify you without delay.
This notification may come in the form of an email or a letter. It’ll detail what happened and what forms of data have been breached. This forms a useful piece of evidence as it confirms that a data protection breach has occurred.
If you’ve suffered stress or anxiety because of the breach, you may have attended a hospital or your local GP for advice and treatment. Any medical notes or letters that you may have received will also form crucial evidence.
If you have suffered financial damage because of the breach, documents like bank statements or a credit report can help prove this.
Once you have all of your evidence together, you can reach out to a data breach solicitor. They can assess your case and may even offer to represent you if they think it’s strong enough.
We can do that for you. So if you’ve gathered evidence or perhaps want some help on how to get it (such as speaking to the ICO), reach out to us today. After a short chat, we’ll be able to tell you if you could be entitled to data breach compensation.
Can I Claim For A Data Breach?
Any information that can identify you is classed as personal data. For example, this can include your name, national insurance number and home address.
All data controllers and processors must follow the rules and regulations set out within UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) as they form data protection laws.
A data controller is usually an organisation that decides how and why your data is being processed. Alternatively, they may pass the task of processing your personal data to an external agency; this is a data processor. If a data controller or processor fails to follow data protection law, this is known as wrongful conduct and could lead to a personal data breach.
A personal data breach is a security incident that compromises the availability, confidentiality, or integrity of personal data.
In order to have a valid data breach compensation claim, your case would need to meet the following criteria:
The data breach must have been caused by a data controller or processor’s wrongful conduct. For example, an organisation failed to update their cyber security measures, resulting in your data being stolen during a cyber attack.
Your personal data must have been affected in the breach.
The personal data breach must have caused you harm, either financially or mentally.
To see whether you may be able to claim data breach compensation after your personal data was breached, you can contact one of our advisors.
What Are Examples Of A Data Breach?
A data breach could occur due to a cyber incident, such as a cyber attack, or due to human error, for example.
Some examples of how a data breach could occur include:
The receptionist at your GP verbally discloses your medical conditions with an unauthorised party over the phone without a lawful basis for doing so.Your employer failed to properly dispose of some paperwork containing your banking information for paying your wages. This results in this information being stolen.
Your landlord sends an email containing your personal data to the wrong email address due to you and another tenant having similar names.
These are only a few examples of how data breaches could happen.
Is There A Time Limit To Making Data Breach Claims?
Generally, there is a six-year time limit for starting a data breach compensation claim.
One of the advantages of working with one of of the data breach solicitors on our panel for your claim is that they can help ensure your case is filed within the time limit. To see if one of our solicitors could help you claim compensation following the breach of your personal data, you can contact our advisors.
How Do I Make A No Win No Fee Data Breach Claim?
The solicitors on our panel have lots of experience working on various types of data breach compensation claims. Some of the services they could offer you include:
Help with gathering evidence to support your case.
Communicating with the defendant.
Filing your claim within the time limit.
Negotiating your compensation settlement.
Furthermore, the solicitors on our panel usually offer their services under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This is a form of No Win No Fee contract and offers you various benefits, including:
You don’t need to pay any upfront fees for the solicitor’s services.
There are no service fees during the course of your claim.
If the claim fails, you will not need to pay the solicitor for their work.
Should the outcome of the claim be successful, a small and legally restricted percentage is deducted from your compensation. This is known as a success fee.
Contact our advisors to discuss your personal data breach claim today. In addition to offering you free advice, they can also answer any questions you may have about how to claim for a data breach and potentially connect you with a solicitor on our panel.
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