Data Breaches and Leaks

Data breaches and leaks are an everyday occurrence in the modern age but they can still have a significant impact on the businesses and individuals caught up in them.  Our team of data protection and crisis/reputation management lawyers can help you deal with the management of such incidents and the fallout which follows.

For organisations: we can assist at every stage of a data breach from initial investigation, consideration of notification to regulators, communications to stakeholders, and ongoing incident and crisis management.  We also provide short term and long term reputation management advice to mitigate the impact of breaches and leaks.

For individuals: if your data has been leaked we can advise you in relation to your options and assist with pursuing formal and informal action whether that is against the organisation/individuals at fault or via the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data regulator, or the courts. Please note that we are not generally able to assist individual clients who seek conditional (‘no win, no fee’) funding arrangements.