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Latest news on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory developments, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world.

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UK NCSC Annual Report: “Nationally Significant” Cyber Incidents Are Now a Weekly Occurrence

October 16, 2025

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.

iCloud website showing backdoor to iCloud data

Data Privacy News

UK Once Again Calling for Backdoor Into iCloud Data With Secret Order

February 18, 2025

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.

Man in handcuffs showing arrest for MGM hack

Cyber Security News

UK Police Arrest Teenage Scattered Spider Member Linked to the MGM Hack

July 26, 2024

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.

Unfocused image with security surveillance monitors in command center showing UK police data stolen by Russian hackers

Cyber Security News

UK Police Data Leaked to Dark Web; Russian Hackers Hold 13 Million Records to Ransom

December 27, 2021

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.

UK Houses of Parliament showing ban on ransomware payments for critical infrastructure

Cyber Security News

UK Preparing Ban on Ransomware Payments for Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Orgs

July 28, 2025

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.

Night view of London’s Big Ben showing the concerns over Big Tech’s chokehold on digital advertising raised by U.K. regulator

Data Privacy News

UK Regulator Worried About Big Tech’s Chokehold on Digital Advertising

January 13, 2020

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.

Tilt-shift lens effect over the facebook.com address in browser showing Facebook end-to-end encryption

Data Privacy News

UK Seeks To Discourage Facebook Rollout of End-to-End Encryption, Citing Risks to the Safety of Children

April 13, 2021

Since 2019, Facebook has been talking about adding end-to-end encryption to all its messaging services. It appears that the government of the United Kingdom would prefer that these plans go no further.

Young woman wearing surgical mask using smart phone app showing lack of data protection impact assessment for UK Test and Trace, in violation of GDPR

Data Protection News

UK Test and Trace Program Has Yet to Undergo a Data Protection Impact Assessment, May Be in Violation of the GDPR

August 7, 2020

Privacy advocate groups allege that UK Test and Trace rushed the process and did not conduct the necessary data protection impact assessment that the GDPR requires for collection of personal data on this sort of scale.

Huawei office building showing the launch of U.K. cyber security reviews on Huawei amid U.S. trade sanctions

Cyber Security News

UK to Launch Huawei Cyber Security Review Amid US Trade Tensions

June 9, 2020

U.K. government is starting cyber security reviews on Huawei amid U.S. trade sanctions to measure its potential for espionage using 5G infrastructure as a backdoor.

City of London showing data breach of UK voter data

Cyber Security News

UK Voter Data Breach Leaked the Personal Information of 40 Million Individuals

August 15, 2023

Massive UK Electoral Commission data breach leaked voter data of 40 million individuals who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The electoral body said it first detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022 and discovered that threat actors had accessed the systems 14 months prior.

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UK NCSC Annual Report: “Nationally Significant” Cyber Incidents Are Now a Weekly Occurrence

UK Once Again Calling for Backdoor Into iCloud Data With Secret Order

UK Police Arrest Teenage Scattered Spider Member Linked to the MGM Hack

UK Police Data Leaked to Dark Web; Russian Hackers Hold 13 Million Records to Ransom

UK Preparing Ban on Ransomware Payments for Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Orgs

UK Regulator Worried About Big Tech’s Chokehold on Digital Advertising

UK Seeks To Discourage Facebook Rollout of End-to-End Encryption, Citing Risks to the Safety of Children

UK to Launch Huawei Cyber Security Review Amid US Trade Tensions

UK Voter Data Breach Leaked the Personal Information of 40 Million Individuals

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People