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The Electoral Commission of the United Kingdom suffered a data breach in 2021–2022. [1] [2] [3]In March 2024 it was reported that the UK security services had identified the Chinese government as the perpetrator of the data breach attack. [4]
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
The loss of United Kingdom child benefit data was a data breach incident in October 2007, when two computer discs owned by HM Revenue and Customs containing data relating to child benefit went missing. The incident was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, on 20 November 2007. The two discs contained the personal ...
British Airways data breach. In summer 2018, a data breach affected almost 500,000 customers of British Airways, of which almost 250,000 had their names, addresses, credit card numbers and CVV cards stolen. The attack gained access to British Airways systems via the account of a compromised third party and escalated their account privileges ...
The following is a list of UK government data losses. It lists reported instances of the loss of personal data by UK central and local government, agencies, non-departmental public bodies, etc., whether directly or indirectly because of the actions of private-sector contractors. Such losses tend to receive widespread media coverage in the UK ...
On 6 November, TalkTalk stated that the impact of the breach was "much more limited than initially suspected", adding that 156,959 customer accounts were involved, from which 15,656 sort codes and bank account numbers had been taken. Partial data on 28,000 credit and debit cards was also stolen, but that data was insufficient for carrying out ...
British Library cyberattack. In October 2023 Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £ 596,000, to restore services and return the stolen data. When the British Library did not acquiesce to the attempt, Rhysida publicly released ...
2017 Equifax data breach. Between May and July 2017, American credit bureau Equifax was breached. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.