{"id":18867,"date":"2025-05-19T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/how-to-protect-your-data-after-a-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:37:55","slug":"how-to-protect-your-data-after-a-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/how-to-protect-your-data-after-a-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your data after a cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to do you if you\u2019re worried your information may have fallen into the wrong hands<\/p>\n<p>Another cyber-attack has hit the headlines \u2013 this one involving the personal data of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2025\/may\/19\/significant-amount-of-personal-data-accessed-in-legal-aid-agency-data-breach-says-moj\">hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants<\/a> in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>It comes hard on the heels of recent cyber-attacks that caused huge disruption at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/marksspencer\">Marks &amp; Spencer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/co-operative-group\">the Co-op<\/a>, and has prompted fresh reminders for people to be extra-vigilant for any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/19\/how-to-protect-your-data-after-a-cyber-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5af2bab3ebfa817b845b91e52ab8969d47d5938c\/98_0_2498_1999\/master\/2498.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b3b721393ee66ad33fe3fdb13738381\" title=\"How to protect your data after a cyber-attack\" \/>What to do you if you\u2019re worried your information may have fallen into the wrong hands<br \/>\nAnother cyber-attack has hit the headlines \u2013 this one involving the personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales.<br \/>\nIt comes hard on the heels of recent cyber-attacks that caused huge disruption at Marks &amp; Spencer and the Co-op, and has prompted fresh reminders for people to be extra-vigilant for any suspicious activity. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do you if you\u2019re worried your information may have fallen into the wrong hands Another cyber-attack has hit the headlines \u2013 this one involving the personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales. It comes hard on the heels of recent cyber-attacks that caused huge disruption at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/how-to-protect-your-data-after-a-cyber-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to protect your data after a cyber-attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18868,"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\/18867"}],"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=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}