KP Law is now taking on claims from individuals whose data was compromised in the XX cyber attack. Under UK data protection laws, organisations that fail to adequately protect your information can be held legally responsible.
KP Law is a specialist data breach law firm with a proven track record in securing compensation for victims of corporate cyber negligence.
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You don’t need to prove financial loss — the emotional impact of the breach (such as stress or anxiety) could still qualify you for compensation.
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If the breach caused more serious psychological harm, your compensation could be higher.
KP Law, a leading UK data breach law firm, is investigating the Legal Aid data breach and is preparing a group action on behalf of affected customers. If you believe your personal data was compromised, you may be entitled to compensation. KP Law has extensive experience in handling data breach cases and is committed to holding companies accountable for failing to protect customer information.
We’re acting on a “no win, no fee” basis — so you won’t pay us a penny unless your claim succeeds.
Arnold Clark experienced a cyber security incident on 23rd December 2022. It was issued with a multimillion-pound ransom demand from the Play ransomware cartel. A 15GB tranche of stolen customer data was allegedly shared on the dark web, with another, much larger upload threatened if the cryptocurrency ransom was not paid.
The cybercriminals then carried out their threat and released another 30 gigabytes of data on the dark web.
The list of potentially compromised data includes customer:
On 3 January 2023, 11 days after the cyberattack, Arnold Clark said:
“Late on the evening of 23rd December, the Group was notified by our external cyber security consultants of suspicious traffic on our network. Once we confirmed this internally with our own Cyber team, we made the decision to bring down our network voluntarily as a purely protective measure, which has resulted in us cutting connectivity to the internet, our dealerships and our third-party connections.
“Our priority has been to protect our customers’ data, our systems and our third-party partners. While this has been acheived, this action has caused temporary disruption to our business and unfortunately our customers.
“Our external security partners have now been performing an extensive review of our whole IT network and infrastructure, which is a mammoth task, and they are providing guidance to our IT team on the re-enabling of our network and systems in a safe, secure and phased manner.
“Our showrooms and branches are open and will be able to assist our customers using our temporary systems until we have been able to restore our full systems safely. We expect to resume customer vehicle collections later this week and our branches are contacting customers to arrange this.
“Once again, we would like to thank our customers for their understanding and to apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.”
On 28 January 2023, Arnold Clark released a further statement about the attack. In this, the company appeared to admit that, while its IT systems were capable of being set up so that they were not vulnerable to external attacks (a segregated environment), work to achieve this had only just begun.
The volume of data at risk leads us to believe that any customer of Arnold Clark in the last ten years has a high probability of their information being accessed.
Arnold Clark is writing to all affected and potentially affected customers and will continue that communication as its investigation progresses.
Anyone who thinks they might be involved should take immediate steps to protect themselves. Find out how to do this here.
If you live in England or Wales and you are involved in this breach, you may be able to join our no-win, no-fee compensation claim. There are no costs to register and no obligation to proceed.
A group action claim is where a group of people – sometimes even thousands of people – have been affected by the same issue. Group action cases are also known as class actions, multi-claimant, or multi-party actions.
There are no costs to join a claim. However, if your claim is successful, you may have to pay a ‘success fee’. This fee is taken from the compensation awarded to you. At KP Law, our success fee is competitive, and we make sure you are fully informed about any potential costs before you officially join our action. If you lose, you won’t have to pay a penny.
At KP Law, we’re committed to holding XX accountable and securing justice for every person whose data was put at risk.
While each case is judged on its own merits, there are some things we would typically look for when it comes to when claiming compensation following a data breach, cybercrime or other GDPR violation:
With stolen data, cybercriminals can make purchases using your bank and credit cards, apply for credit in your name, set up fraudulent bank accounts and access your existing online accounts.
GDPR failures, cybercrime and data breaches can have a significant impact on you, both mentally and physically. They can cause or exacerbate anxiety, stress and other psychological conditions.
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