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Cyber incident forces two day closure at Warwickshire school
A cyber incident shut down IT at Higham Lane School in Nuneaton, cutting phones, email and servers and forcing a two day closure. Recovery work involves a Department for Education response team and trust IT experts.
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UK data watchdog fines LastPass £1.2m after 2022 breach exposed data of up to 1.6m users
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined LastPass £1.2 million over a two-part 2022 breach that exposed personal data for up to 1.6 million UK users, finding failures in technical and organisational security including permissive account-linking policies and missed AWS alerts.
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UK data watchdog fines sole trader £200,000 over nearly 1m spam texts targeting people in debt
The Information Commissioner’s Office fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after finding he sent 966,449 unsolicited texts about debt and energy grants from hundreds of numbers; the ICO said the messages lacked sender identification, prompted calls from a firm calling itself The Debt Relief Team, generated more than 19,000 complaints and that Chand has appealed the…
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UK regulator declines formal probe into MoD Afghan data leak, commissioner tells MPs
The UK Information Commissioner told MPs his office decided not to open a formal investigation into a Ministry of Defence data breach that exposed details of Afghan resettlement applicants, citing concerns an inquiry might hinder the MoD’s response and noting resource limits for handling classified material.
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UK regulator fines Capita £14m over 2023 cyberattack that exposed 6.6m people
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita £14 million after a 2023 cyberattack exposed data on about 6.6 million people; the ICO said failures in detection and privileged account controls allowed attackers to exfiltrate roughly 1 TB and deploy ransomware.
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Renault and Dacia inform UK customers of data exposure after third‑party breach
Renault and Dacia told UK customers that personal data held by a third‑party provider was taken in a cyberattack, exposing names, contact details and vehicle identifiers; Renault said banking data was not exposed and declined to name the supplier or say how many customers were affected.
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Major Mobile Ad Fraud Operation IconAds Discovered
The IconAds mobile ad fraud operation, involving 352 Android apps, has been disrupted, according to HUMAN. The malicious apps generated 1.2 billion daily bid requests, primarily targeting users in Brazil, Mexico, and the US, before their removal from the Play Store.
