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Hack warning: Secure your data or risk a $31 million fine
- How do you store your customers’ personal data?
Are you one hundred percent sure it’s safe from hackers?
These are very important questions for small businesses.
- Alexandra Cain
- WAtoday
Just last week Fairfax reported a conveyancing firm’s IT system had been compromised by hackers who were able to steal $250,000 of a client’s funds from it.
Plus, stiff new data privacy rules in the European Union last month mean it’s now more important than ever for small businesses to get their cyber security right.
Because it’s entirely possible that even though the laws come from the EU, they apply to your…