- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Neil Hodge2021-01-15T15:12:00
British Airways faces the largest group claim ever made in U.K. legal history over a 2018 data breach that exposed the financial and personal details of more than 400,000 of its customers.
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