9 h. ago Sonya Massey shooting prompts Illinois law requiring disclosure of police recruits' backgrounds

Background records of police recruits in Illinois must be available to a prospective employer under a new law in response to last summer's shooting death of Sonya Massey

Events

6 d. ago All Pandora customers contacted by company after data breach

Pandora has admitted that a cyber attack has seen three pieces of data stolen - but has moved to play down the incident

Economics

8 d. ago 'Dating has never felt more unsafe': How the Tea app hack exposed the very issue it was built to solve

An app built to protect female daters has been targeted in a terrifying revenge attack by the right-wing group 4chan — underscoring just how unsafe dating is in the process. So where can we go from here? Katie Strick reports

Politics

3 w. ago Inquiry launched after identities of SAS soldiers leaked in fresh data breach

Details about operatives in the secretive military unit have reportedly been available online for a decade

Events

3 w. ago UK relocated Afghan family after they sought data breach disclosure via law firm

Most of the 25,000 Afghans whose details were in the leaked database were not notified until this month

Society

3 w. ago The failure to stand by Afghans who fought with the British has been unforgivable

Editorial: The incompetence of the Ministry of Defence effort to look after those Afghans who served with our forces requires accountability

Events

3 w. ago Chaos and fear as Afghans exposed in huge data breach left in limbo by UK

Exclusive: ‘We don’t deserve this’ – Afghans who worked with UK forces left behind after the fall of Kabul and affected by the breach call on the UK to evacuate them now

Events

3 w. ago Government will 'robustly defend' any compensation claims from thousands of Afghans whose lives were put at risk by massive data breach

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the Government would 'robustly defend' any legal action or bid for compensation, adding these were 'hypothetical claims'.

Politics

3 w. ago MoD to ‘robustly defend’ compensation claims from Afghans in data breach case

The data breach saw details of 18,714 applicants for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme released in 2022.

Politics

3 w. ago Hundreds of MoD data breaches revealed as security questions raised in wake of Afghan data breach

In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hacked

Events

3 w. ago 'We saved lives,' says Grant Shapps in defence of super injunction on leaked list of SAS, MI6 and Afghan names

‘There are times where you simply have to act in the most maximalist way in order to stop people from being murdered and executed,’ said the former Defence Secretary

Politics

3 w. ago Top Tory Grant Shapps claims Afghan data breach kept secret over risk of executions

In his first comments since news of an unprecedented superinjunction was made public, the ex-Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said his focus was on 'sorting out the mess and saving lives'

Events

3 w. ago 'We saved lives,' says Grant Shapps in defence of super injunction on leaked list of Afghan, MI6 and SAS names

‘There are times where you simply have to act in the most maximalist way in order to stop people from being murdered and executed,’ said the former Defence Secretary

Politics

3 w. ago Grant Shapps defends use of superinjunction to suppress Afghan data leak

Shapps, defence secretary when the superinjunction was imposed, said its use was ‘entirely justified’ to save livesAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the ARR?The former defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended the use of an unprecedented superinjunction to suppress a data breach that led to the UK government relocating 15,000 Afghans.The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) was created in haste after it emerged that personal information about 18,700 Afghans who had applied to come to the UK had been leaked in error by a British defence official in early 2022. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago British spies and special forces soldiers exposed in Afghan data breach

More than 100 names of British government personnel were also exposed by the leak

Events

3 w. ago Details of Brits including spies and special forces included in Afghan data leak

The details of MI6 spies, SAS and special forces personnel were leaked along with the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Politics

3 w. ago British spies and special forces soldiers had data leaked in Afghan breach

More than 100 names of British government personnel were also exposed by the leak

Events

3 w. ago Intelligence committee demands to know why ministers kept them in the dark over Afghan data breach

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has warned there was no grounds for information to be withheld from them

Politics

3 w. ago Defence secretary revealed sensitive Afghan data breach details – but media still banned from reporting it

John Healey revealed details to MPs that have previously been kept secret – the media is fighting to be allowed to tell you what it is

Events

3 w. ago Defence secretary revealed sensitive Afghan data breach details

John Healey revealed details to MPs that have previously been kept secret - the media is fighting to be allowed to tell you what it is

Politics