A good reminder of the greatest weakness of any system: people with access to it.
Will be interesting to see how big the fine for breaching data protection laws will be.
“After an apparent refusal to pay a ransom demand, Russian hackers have leaked a sampling of 13 million records of UK police data to the dark web in retaliation.
The records were stolen from a police contractor, and the Russian hackers released just a small portion of what they stole but have threatened to release more if their demands continue to be rebuffed. It remains unclear exactly what personal information has been breached, but the dark web samples contain indications that the data was stolen from a national traffic monitoring system and contains photos of drivers that were caught speeding.”
Nice to know that police information is kept securely by some definitely competent private firm.
Did Dacoll announce this hack? I don’t remember reading anything.
>Dacoll recently issued a statement indicating that the breach happened on October 5
October? why am I reading about it today?
Looks like someone needs a giant fine and a permanent loss of contracts.
It sounds like the British authorities are suffering from paralysis as to what to do next. Not usual but when people find out the data is likely name, address, DOB, drivers license number, NI number, penalty points, all past convictions, then the public will scream loud and long.
Hmmm I wonder if they can do my ACRO certificate for cheaper than £55. Anyone got their contact details?
I find it silly that they always call them Russian hackers. There isn’t anyway to actually know where they cam from as they all use ways to obscure their original location.
The breach happened on October 5th, and we’re hearing about this now.
Needless to say that this is a massive breach of GDPR and data protection laws. Dacoll will probably just get a six figure fine and a slap on the wrist when they should actually be getting criminal charges levied against them.
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The idea that sensitive data is ever in the hands of an organisation as incompetent and thick as the UK police is terrifying. My cousin travels around the UK visiting every police station in order to explain/service/repair the fingerprint technology. The countless tales he tells of utter police incompetence and stupidity are depressing. Extremely expensive and sensitive screen for fingerprinting? Yeah, PC Plod has put his coffee mug down on it and now it’s damaged and needs replacing (at massive public expense).
I was caught speeding a few years ago and to be honest I don’t care if they know.
I really should GDPR the police at some point to see what personal data they have of mine and if I can request its deletion. They look a more incompetent organisation by the day.
I bet there was some stupidly basic, well established security flaw that was exploited.
Like how both Sony and Talk Talk both got done by SQL injection, a good decade after it was documented and patched.
Here me raising my work accessing client cctv with no apparent permission to do so. Thinking how can two organisations do this.
Then I read this- which is just mind blowing !
Why the hell isnt this the lead story on every UK paper and TV news broadcast???
So when am I going to get a letter from the police, the government or the DVLA informing me that foreign criminals may have released images of my car, my face and details contained on my driving licence, including full name, address’, DOB and licence number to the whole world? Why did I have to pick up a random Reddit post to find out such important secure information may have been compromised?
How do we know they’re Russian, or is this being said to passively push a political agenda
The UK: Each and every day becoming a Banana ~~Republic~~ Constitutional Monarchy in each and every way.
The ineptitude seems endemic.
Happened in October? FFS!
This is a clear and obvious GDPR violation by Dacoll. Companies which store personally identifiable information (and I’m pretty sure numberplate records would count as that, even if the records aren’t linked to names, which they probably are) are mandated not only to not deliberately release it without permission, but also have processes in place to prevent accidental leakage or loss.
Year ok. They might be British or Americans, making out they are Russians. Plus, that exactly what the U.K. government and police would want everyone to believe. Ok, it might well be true, but as you know, you really can’t trust what the police & government say these day. So keep an open mind, don’t take it for granted that it’s exactly true.
In some 5head move they should offer a CRB check service at a discount
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A good reminder of the greatest weakness of any system: people with access to it.
Will be interesting to see how big the fine for breaching data protection laws will be.
“After an apparent refusal to pay a ransom demand, Russian hackers have leaked a sampling of 13 million records of UK police data to the dark web in retaliation.
The records were stolen from a police contractor, and the Russian hackers released just a small portion of what they stole but have threatened to release more if their demands continue to be rebuffed. It remains unclear exactly what personal information has been breached, but the dark web samples contain indications that the data was stolen from a national traffic monitoring system and contains photos of drivers that were caught speeding.”
Nice to know that police information is kept securely by some definitely competent private firm.
Did Dacoll announce this hack? I don’t remember reading anything.
>Dacoll recently issued a statement indicating that the breach happened on October 5
October? why am I reading about it today?
Looks like someone needs a giant fine and a permanent loss of contracts.
It sounds like the British authorities are suffering from paralysis as to what to do next. Not usual but when people find out the data is likely name, address, DOB, drivers license number, NI number, penalty points, all past convictions, then the public will scream loud and long.
Hmmm I wonder if they can do my ACRO certificate for cheaper than £55. Anyone got their contact details?
I find it silly that they always call them Russian hackers. There isn’t anyway to actually know where they cam from as they all use ways to obscure their original location.
The breach happened on October 5th, and we’re hearing about this now.
Needless to say that this is a massive breach of GDPR and data protection laws. Dacoll will probably just get a six figure fine and a slap on the wrist when they should actually be getting criminal charges levied against them.
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The idea that sensitive data is ever in the hands of an organisation as incompetent and thick as the UK police is terrifying. My cousin travels around the UK visiting every police station in order to explain/service/repair the fingerprint technology. The countless tales he tells of utter police incompetence and stupidity are depressing. Extremely expensive and sensitive screen for fingerprinting? Yeah, PC Plod has put his coffee mug down on it and now it’s damaged and needs replacing (at massive public expense).
I was caught speeding a few years ago and to be honest I don’t care if they know.
I really should GDPR the police at some point to see what personal data they have of mine and if I can request its deletion. They look a more incompetent organisation by the day.
I bet there was some stupidly basic, well established security flaw that was exploited.
Like how both Sony and Talk Talk both got done by SQL injection, a good decade after it was documented and patched.
Here me raising my work accessing client cctv with no apparent permission to do so. Thinking how can two organisations do this.
Then I read this- which is just mind blowing !
Why the hell isnt this the lead story on every UK paper and TV news broadcast???
So when am I going to get a letter from the police, the government or the DVLA informing me that foreign criminals may have released images of my car, my face and details contained on my driving licence, including full name, address’, DOB and licence number to the whole world? Why did I have to pick up a random Reddit post to find out such important secure information may have been compromised?
How do we know they’re Russian, or is this being said to passively push a political agenda
The UK: Each and every day becoming a Banana ~~Republic~~ Constitutional Monarchy in each and every way.
The ineptitude seems endemic.
Happened in October? FFS!
This is a clear and obvious GDPR violation by Dacoll. Companies which store personally identifiable information (and I’m pretty sure numberplate records would count as that, even if the records aren’t linked to names, which they probably are) are mandated not only to not deliberately release it without permission, but also have processes in place to prevent accidental leakage or loss.
Year ok. They might be British or Americans, making out they are Russians. Plus, that exactly what the U.K. government and police would want everyone to believe. Ok, it might well be true, but as you know, you really can’t trust what the police & government say these day. So keep an open mind, don’t take it for granted that it’s exactly true.
In some 5head move they should offer a CRB check service at a discount