Bounty UK collected information from new mothers, mothers-to-be, as well as the birth dates and genders of young children, according to the ICO.

Jon Callas, a computer security expert who left Apple for the ACLU last year, said Monday it’s become too easy to become nihilistic about personal privacy because of the last decade of negative headlines about corporate data collection.

While it’s not new for CISOs to compare notes with their counterparts in other companies, the number of invite-only sessions is growing as the pressure on executives grows to get things right.

The company has determined that hackers had unauthorized access on Starwood’s guest database dating back to 2014.

The flaw has been patched in the privacy-focused plugin WP GDPR Compliance, which has more than 100,000 downloads.

It's first official financial consequence of the scandal.