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Originally Posted by halfpint
In May 2011, ACS:Law was fined £1000 for the privacy breach, with the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham commenting: "Were it not for the fact that ACS:Law has ceased trading so that Mr Crossley now has limited means, a monetary penalty of £200,000 would have been imposed, given the severity of the breach." Graham criticised ACS:Law for having computer security measures that "were barely fit for purpose in a person's home environment, let alone a business handling such sensitive details." The consumer group Which? described the £1000 fine as "paltry".[26]
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this of course did wonders for their attempt to argue that people should be held responsible for their unsecured wifi.
if they could secure their own servers and they were a million dollar corporation
how could a house hold be expected to do better.