Students are responsible for most school data breaches in the U.K., usually involving compromised, leaked, or weak credentials, setting them up for a life of cybercrime.
The International Data Transfer Agreement tools are meant to reflect the changes made to the UK's own version of the GDPR, and could be available in late March.
UK law enforcement has shared over half a million compromised passwords found in cloud storage with Have I Been Pwned. The headline item is that over one-third of these passwords (about 225 million) have not been logged before.
UK's NCSC issued an alert over the growing risk of ransomware attacks as threat actors diversified attack vectors and monetization methods, with some victims hit by repeat attacks shortly after paying a ransom.
The 2025 UK report is composed of 1,727 tips on cyber incidents over the course of the year that developed into a total of 429 cases that involved intervention by the NCSC IM team. The share of incidents ranked as "nationally significant" jumped from 89 in the prior year to 204 in the current one.
The UK government is once again leaning on Apple for unrestricted access to the cloud backup data of its users. Apple would not be able to warn users that the UK’s required backdoor had been implemented and that their encrypted iCloud data was no longer entirely safe.
UK Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected Scattered Spider member accused of the MGM hack that disrupted casinos and hotels in Las Vegas on September 12, 2023, costing over $100 million in recovery.
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.
Restrictions on ransomware payments have become common for government agencies around the world, but it is still fairly rare to see them extended to the public sector or local levels of government. The new UK rules would additionally require all business types that are not impacted to notify the government.
U.K. study on the collection and exploitation of personal data by Big Tech companies showed that Google's and Facebook's dominance in digital advertising could be harming competition in the market.
