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UK Cyber Attacks
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There must have been red faces in the social media department of Ireland’s police headquarters after two of its accounts were hijacked this week. The official @GardaInfo and @GardaTraffic Twitter accounts of Garda Síochána were accessed by an unauthorised third party who posted cryptocurrency-related messages on Wednesday evening, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands of users.…
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Joe Tidy reports: German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted pathology services across several London hospitals and was the first cyber attack in……
DataBreaches.net
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The 28-year-old detained by German police is accused of being part of the cyber-crime gang that hacked blood-test firm Synnovis in 2024.
BBC News
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Experts are warning that the UK is unprepared for crises. A refrigerator cyber-attack scare in France is the latest reminder of the risks What’s worrying French supermarket bosses should be prompting British ministers to action. On Sunday, hackers forced up the temperatures of refrigerators in hundreds of food stores across France to as high as…
The Guardian
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A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.
The Record
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Most of the data is related to applications, claims, and payments submitted between 2007 and 2025.
SecurityWeek
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The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an “ongoing failure” by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services…
Computer Weekly
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Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which was compromised in a cyberattack in 2025 goes back as far as 1978. The LAA on Wednesday announced……
DataBreaches.net
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Nearly 50 years of data caught up in breach, with probation service records also among the haul…
The Register
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The ICO has handed the Metropolitan Police a reprimand and enforcement notice after privacy failings linked to the Auror platform…
Infosecurity Magazine
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The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK’s Ministry of Justice that manages the country’s Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978.
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People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind the three UK fashion brands. TFG London, the UK business of South African retail group The Foschini Group (TFG), detected the incident on Sunday, 11…
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