Wow this is the second police Data breach in what 2 weeks? Northern Ireland had one because of a FOI request too.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Yeh. I’m intrigued as to what kind of cocked-up processes turn an FoI request into a breach like this.
An imaginary pint says their FOI handling is outsourced to C*pita.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A total of 1,230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, have had their data breached by Norfolk and Suffolk police forces.
They said the information was attached to a "very small percentage" of responses to FOI requests for crime statistics issued by the forces between April 2021 and March 2022.
Both the Norfolk and Suffolk forces described the data as "hidden from anyone opening the files" and said they had found "nothing to suggest" it had been accessed by "anyone outside of policing".
Suffolk Temporary Assistant Chief Constable, Eamonn Bridger, who led the investigation on behalf of both forces, said once they were aware of the breach, they took "immediate steps" to react and to remove the data from the public domain.
"The management of information is a complex area of policing, especially when we're talking about huge volumes of data... occasionally things can go wrong.
Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, said: "The potential impact of a breach like this reminds us that data protection is about people.
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