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Hackers have targeted the company behind a £50bn project to build a vast underground nuclear waste store in Britain, its developer has said. Radioactive Waste Management, the company behind the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) project, has said that hackers unsuccessfully Read More …
Hundreds of victims of sexual offences were among those to have personal details leaked as part of a huge police data breach. Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies revealed in August that a technical issue had led to sensitive raw data about Read More …
Hackers have stolen data including partial credit card numbers from parking apps used by millions of motorists. EasyPark, which owns RingGo and ParkMobile, said the details of at least 950 customers in the UK had been stolen by hackers, including Read More …
An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who is autistic, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. The gang’s attacks Read More …
A former Chelsea striker played a possible minor role in a global investment crime gang, according to prosecutors investigating a cyber scam worth “billions”. Rati Aleksidze was temporarily held under a European arrest warrant in March. German prosecutors told Telegraph Sport Read More …
The police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain’s 50 million driving licence holders under a law change being quietly introduced by the government. Should the police wish to put a name Read More …
Urgent action is needed to address NHS computer failings which are causing harm to patients, the patient safety watchdog has told BBC News. The watchdog has evidence of patient deaths due to IT system errors. The government called the reports Read More …
The Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 for an “egregious” data breach that exposed the personal information of Afghan nationals seeking to flee to the UK after the Taliban takeover. Details belonging to 265 people were mistakenly copied in Read More …
A major data breach within the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been described as “a wake-up call” for forces across the UK. A report into the data leak has made 37 recommendations for improving information security within the Read More …
The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal. The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff at Read More …
