Data Breach e-Crime, A Case Study and Legal Analysis

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the Bonafede V. EE data breach case, examining legal breaches, relevant laws, case details, and implications within UK cyberlaw and e-Crime regulations.

Contribution

It provides a detailed legal case study of a specific data breach, highlighting legal violations and their context within UK cyberlaw for the first time.

Findings

Identified breaches of three UK laws

Analyzed case law and legal reasoning

Evaluated the case's legal significance

Abstract

The Bonafede V. EE data breach is a reported data breach e-Crime in the media, also published by the BBC on 8th February 2019 in the United Kingdom which has not yet come to Court. Three laws and regulations of the United Kingdom that have been breached and references to relevant case laws are highlighted in this paper. Further, Facts of the Case; Issues observed; Decision made; Reasonings to the case; Opinions; and Analysis are discussed. The discussions include legal points raised in the case, with the relevant laws to draw attention to the keywords or phrases that are in dispute. There are sufficient details of the organization for the reader to understand both the scale and its activity. Discussions refer to case law in support with the reasonings outlined, point by point in numbered paragraphs. At the analysis stage, the significance of the case, its relationship to other referenced cases, its place in history and the value of the current laws in place are evaluated while making references to current law. KEYWORDS: Data breach, e-Crime, Cyberlaw, Cybercrime, I.T and Internet law