{"id":24222,"date":"2026-08-03T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/uks-state-investments-agency-hit-by-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:37:47","slug":"uks-state-investments-agency-hit-by-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/uks-state-investments-agency-hit-by-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s state investments agency hit by data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours<\/p>\n<p>The public body in charge of the UK\u2019s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left \u201chigh-level management information\u201d publicly accessible for nearly two days.<\/p>\n<p>UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the taxpayers\u2019 interest in a swathe of companies including Channel 4 and the Post Office, said the security failure also left more than 50 government officials\u2019 personal details exposed for nearly 40 hours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/02\/uk-state-investments-agency-data-breach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c24b73fd1d29d040bef47aaa6eb42c8cfac65aed\/520_0_5200_4160\/master\/5200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b93401b133970845b8d97ef78f6d802e\" title=\"UK\u2019s state investments agency hit by data breach\" \/>Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours<br \/>\nThe public body in charge of the UK\u2019s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left \u201chigh-level management information\u201d publicly accessible for nearly two days.<br \/>\nUK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the taxpayers\u2019 interest in a swathe of companies including Channel 4 and the Post Office, said the security failure also left more than 50 government officials\u2019 personal details exposed for nearly 40 hours. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours The public body in charge of the UK\u2019s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left \u201chigh-level management information\u201d publicly accessible for nearly two days. UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/uks-state-investments-agency-hit-by-data-breach\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK\u2019s state investments agency hit by data breach<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24223,"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\/24222"}],"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=24222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}