Following the data loss and breach at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Norfolk and Suffolk Police forces, the London Metropolitan Police has reported a data breach. Met Police investigating suspected data breach – BBC News An investigation is underway at one of its suppliers into unauthorised …
Another police force suffers a data leak
The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
Reckless
Two data leaks of highly sensitive information by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will have long term and serious implications for the officers, personnel and their families and friends. PSNI chief admits officers anxious and angry at data breach – BBC News These leaks are a crisis. Your …
Over two hundred thousand phone calls recorded
It appears neither the police or the people being recorded knew what was being done or what personal information was being saved. Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls – The Register The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled against Surrey and Sussex Police for using the Another Call …
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The Vice Society targets UK Schools
The Vice Society, a hacking group that often targets US schools, has released stolen confidential data relating to several UK schools: Schools hit by cyber attack and documents leaked – BBC News Student, parent and staff information was compromised and included pay and contract details, passport scans and pupil special …
Sometimes a cyber incident is not a cyber attack and what you can do to stop it.
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 …
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Student information published online
The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School has suffered a cyber-attack that has resulted in confidential student information getting into the public domain. Pupils’ data spread online in Hereford school cyber attack – BBC News The school has been open about the attack but is awaiting the outcome of the police …
