{"id":24996,"date":"2026-09-19T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:37:39","slug":"sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to \u2018compromise\u2019 by US government and foreign actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers<\/p>\n<p>Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an o\ufb03cial UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to \u201ccompromise\u201d by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The files include criminal records, victim statements, internal emails and sensitive information held by more than 40 police forces across the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/sep\/18\/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cac874b0d63d48e39cf43ea5a61612e0817abaf2\/1_0_4998_4000\/master\/4998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c490e0edab20299627db9b3dc5c42f39\" title=\"Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to \u2018compromise\u2019 by US government and foreign actors\" \/>Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers<br \/>\nVast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an o\ufb03cial UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to \u201ccompromise\u201d by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.<br \/>\nThe files include criminal records, victim statements, internal emails and sensitive information held by more than 40 police forces across the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an o\ufb03cial UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to \u201ccompromise\u201d by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/sensitive-uk-police-data-vulnerable-to-compromise-by-us-government-and-foreign-actors\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to \u2018compromise\u2019 by US government and foreign actors<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24997,"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\/24996"}],"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=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}