ICO fines Ticketmaster over data security breaches

Ticketing giant Ticketmaster has been fined £1.25m by the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK for having inadequate security measures to protect its customer's data. The data of 1.5 million customer records in the UK, and a further 7.9 million elsewhere in Europe, was compromised and the company has been held responsible for 60,000 payment cards belonging to Barclays Bank customers being subjected to known fraud.