Sometimes a cyber incident is not a cyber attack and what you can do to stop it.

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The loss of control of your information and it getting into the public domain is not always a cyber attack – many times it is simply a mistake by your team. It has happened to the Australian telecommunications company Telstra: Telstra sorry for publishing up to 130,000 customers’ details online …

Bedfordshire Council is sorry – well that’s OK then! Advice on CIA, AAA and Policies and Procedures

Here is another example of a data breach at a council. Although breach implies someone broke in and stole the data – as opposed to what happened which was that the Council employees themselves just sent the sensitive information out as part of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request – …