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Established in 1984, the Westcoast Group remains privately held with its distributor arm, Westcoast Limited, distributing leading IT brands to a broad range of resellers, retailers and office product dealers in the UK and beyond. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of its staff, the Group is flourishing with revenues reaching £2.8 billion in 2019.
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It is consistently ranked in the Sunday Times Top Track of the 100 Largest Privately-owned UK Companies, and is the largest privately-held business in the Thames Valley region.
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Karl Harris is Westcoast’s CIO. He joined the business four years ago with a brief to modernise its IT.
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Tesla has fired and sued software engineer Alex Khatilov for alleged trade secret theft and breach of contract. The electric automaker claims its former employee copied thousands of files to his personal Dropbox account just days after being hired.
The complaint [PDF], filed on Friday in US District Court in San Jose, California, claims Khatilov, also known as Sabhir Khatilov and Alex Tilov, was hired as a senior quality assurance engineer on December 28, 2020, and began copying company files without authorization just days later. Within three days, he began stealing thousands of highly confidential software files from Tesla’s secure internal network, transferring them to his personal cloud storage account on Dropbox, to which Tesla has no access or visibility, the complaint contends. The files consist of scripts of proprietary software code that Tesla has spent years of engineering time
Twitter fined half a million dollars for late data breach reporting
Better late than never? Not under GDPR.
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Twitter has been issued a big fine for late reporting of a data breach under GDPR rules.
Irelandâs Data Protection Commission slapped a fine of â¬450,000 ($547,000) on the social media company for failing to report an issue â which saw protected tweets become unprotected for some Android users â within the legally required timeframe per Europe s General Data Protection Regulation.
The DPC made its final decision on Tuesday after an investigation that commenced in Jan. 2019. Following a data breach in the 2018 holiday period, Twitter did notify the DPC, but the commission found that the company had reported it outside the 72-hour statutory notice period required under GDPR, and in doing so, infringed Article 33(1) and 33(5) of the GDPR in terms of a failure to notify the breach on time to the DPC and a f