Pension scheme data breach claim for compensation

You could be eligible to pursue compensation for a pension scheme data breach, and we may be able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis.

Victims can suffer substantial distress as a result of an incident of this nature, and you can talk to our team for free, no-obligation legal help about starting a case here now.

Can you claim compensation for a pension scheme data breach?

You could be eligible to claim privacy compensation for a pension scheme data breach if your information has been subsequently misused or exposed in an event of this nature. If the underlying cause of the incident has arisen from some form of negligence or oversight, that is when you could be eligible to pursue a compensation case. Essentially, we need to prove that there has been a breach of the GDPR to be able to hold an organisation responsible for compensating you.

If we can establish that negligence has taken place, we can then assess what you could be entitled to claim compensation for. The GDPR can allow people to recover damages for any distress that has been caused by the loss of control of personal information, which is the primary element that people claim for. Distress can be an “injury to feeling” so to speak, which can compensate for any worry, stress, anger, anxiety, upset, and other adverse feelings associated with no longer being able to control who knows what about you. We can typically assess this based on factors such as the nature of the information affected, how much is involved, the context of the breach, and how you have been personally impacted, which can differ from person to person.

If you have also encountered losses and expenses, perhaps from fraud or theft incidents that have arisen from a pension scheme data breach, you could be eligible to recover damages for those as well. However, losses and expenses are not essential to be able to pursue a case, as most people claim for just distress alone, which can be significant enough to warrant a payout in the thousands of pounds region.

If you want to know whether you could be eligible to pursue a privacy compensation claim for a breach of the GDPR now, please do not hesitate to contact us here today.

What about a cyberattack affecting pension data?

If a pension scheme data breach has arisen from a cyberattack, you could still be eligible to pursue damages against the organisation responsible for protecting your data. All organisations have an important responsibility to ensure that they have adequate cybersecurity in place to defend against attacks. Any failure to do this can constitute a breach of the GDPR which could then allow you to pursue damages.

As it happens, pension information is certainly a target for cyberhackers who will attempt to steal such information to be able to commit fraud and theft. They may also try to hold organisations to ransom by locking down systems or threatening to expose information that they have been able to steal. For the victim, this can cause considerable distress, even if no actual financial losses or expenses are incurred.

Data breach compensation – free, no-obligation legal advice now

If you need to pursue a data breach compensation claim, we may be able to represent you for a case on a No Win, No Fee basis.

You can find out quickly if your claim is one that we can pursue for you by contacting our team for free, no-obligation legal help here now.