Recent Data Breaches

In April 2025, the UK’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) fell victim to a significant cyberattack, leading to the exposure of sensitive personal data of individuals who applied for legal aid since 2010. The breach compromised […]

Navigating the Data Minefield: Real-World Lessons from UK Data Breaches It’s a funny old world, isn’t it? Everything’s gone digital, faster than we can often keep up. And with that lightning-fast pace comes a responsibility, […]

The Unseen Wounds: Why Cyberattacks on the NHS Demand Our Urgent Attention It’s a chilling thought, isn’t it? The very institutions we trust with our health, with our lives, suddenly brought to their knees by […]

Navigating the Data Frontier: A Deep Dive into the UK Data Service In the constantly shifting landscape of research data management, where insights are king and evidence is currency, the UK Data Service (UKDS) stands […]

When the Digital Foundations Quake: Unpacking the TfL Cyberattack of 2024 In early September of 2024, a chill wind swept through London’s digital landscape, a stark reminder that even the most robust public services aren’t […]

The Digital Scars of LockBit 3.0: A Deep Dive into the NHS Cyber Attack Remember August 2022? It wasn’t just another summer month for the UK’s National Health Service. That period brought a jarring reality […]

The Digital Silence: Unpacking the British Library Cyberattack’s Enduring Impact Imagine, for a moment, one of the world’s most venerated intellectual institutions – a veritable treasure trove of human knowledge – brought to its knees, […]

The Met Police Breach: A Stark Reminder of Supply Chain’s Hidden Dangers Late August 2023 saw London’s Metropolitan Police grapple with a chilling reality: a cybersecurity breach, not directly on their own systems, but through […]

When Digital Lifelines Fray: Unpacking the HSE Ransomware Catastrophe It was May 2021, and a sense of uneasy anticipation, almost a quiet dread, began to settle over Ireland’s healthcare system. We’d been navigating a global […]

M&S’s Digital Comeback: A Tale of Resilience After a £300M Cyber Blow It’s been a long fifteen weeks, hasn’t it? For Marks & Spencer, a name synonymous with British high street reliability, this period felt […]