Earlier this month, a former RAC employee was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for stealing company data and sharing it with another firm. An ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) investigation revealed that Kim Doyle transferred RAC customers’ names, mobile phone numbers and...

Seeding is the practice of planting dummy details into a database. Organisations do this so that they can monitor how the information is being handled and identify when it has been misused or breached. The practice is becoming increasingly popular, as...