Data breaches

Council data breach publishes children's details
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Cornwall
Posted
11 May 2022
University data breach taken 'very seriously'
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Essex
Posted
3 May 2022
Inquiry after leak of information involving Queen
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Wales politics
Posted
7 April 2022
Digital Planet. Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers. Audio, 47 minutes
Ukraine is claiming to use facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Island children's details sent out in data breach
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Posted
22 March 2022
Council reports four serious data breaches
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Tees
Posted
22 February 2022
War victims' details stolen in hack on Red Cross
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World
Posted
20 January 2022
NHS trust apologises for Covid trial data breach
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Stoke & Staffordshire
Posted
2 December 2021
Government fined £500,000 over honours data breach
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UK Politics
Posted
2 December 2021
Belfast Trust investigates potential data breach
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Northern Ireland
Posted
23 November 2021
Supreme Court blocks mass claim against Google
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Technology
Posted
10 November 2021
Seven million hit by Robinhood data breach
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Technology
Posted
9 November 2021
HIV charity fined £10,000 for email data breach
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Scotland
Posted
22 October 2021
Footballers threaten data firms with legal action
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Wales
Posted
12 October 2021
Twitch blames server error for massive data leak
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Technology
Posted
7 October 2021
Twitch confirms massive data breach
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Technology
Posted
6 October 2021
Assume Nothing. Hack Attack, Episode 2: Teenage Clicks. Audio, 27 minutes
Who had the know-how and the inclination to take down TalkTalk?
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BBC Radio Ulster
Available for over a year
Assume Nothing. Hack Attack, Episode 1: Data Kidnap. Audio, 27 minutes
One of the UK’s most high profile cyber-attacks - but no one knows who's behind it.
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BBC Radio Ulster
Available for over a year
Second Afghan data breach by MoD uncovered
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UK
Posted
22 September 2021
Defence secretary angered over Afghan data breach
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UK
Posted
21 September 2021
MoD shared 250 Afghan interpreters' details on email
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UK
Posted
21 September 2021
Investigation into hacked "map" of UK gun owners
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Technology
Posted
1 September 2021