{"id":11125,"date":"2023-08-09T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:37:46","slug":"electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia named as likely culprit in cyber-attack on election watchdog, while police service accidentally publishes staff details<\/p>\n<p>The UK election watchdog and Northern Ireland\u2019s police service both announced serious data breaches on Tuesday, in the latest example of the vulnerability of personal details to hacks and human error.<\/p>\n<p>The UK data regulator, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO), is looking at the incidents, which have raised immediate safety concerns over the consequences of leaking personal data. Here is what has happened and what we know so far.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/aug\/09\/electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/016b42ef5b3365037da639af246c11a0b8ad800a\/0_374_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=31feac839b59ba8f95d02bacc87c687c\" title=\"Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far\" \/>Russia named as likely culprit in cyber-attack on election watchdog, while police service accidentally publishes staff details<br \/>\nThe UK election watchdog and Northern Ireland\u2019s police service both announced serious data breaches on Tuesday, in the latest example of the vulnerability of personal details to hacks and human error.<br \/>\nThe UK data regulator, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO), is looking at the incidents, which have raised immediate safety concerns over the consequences of leaking personal data. Here is what has happened and what we know so far. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia named as likely culprit in cyber-attack on election watchdog, while police service accidentally publishes staff details The UK election watchdog and Northern Ireland\u2019s police service both announced serious data breaches on Tuesday, in the latest example of the vulnerability of personal details to hacks and human error. The UK data regulator, the Information Commissioner\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/electoral-commission-and-psni-data-breaches-what-we-know-so-far\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}