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17 hours ago

The Department for Education has referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office after hackers gained access to hundreds of thousands of lines of information in a cyberattack. Story ⬇️ publictechnology.net/2026/07/30/new…

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20 hours ago

You can read the committee report here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/5…

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Key findings: - Data breach not discovered for 1.5 years - Data breach was preventable - Extraordinary secrecy used by HMG - Not simply human error: poor systems, weak oversight A public interest existed & the public should have been informed a breach had occurred.

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2 days ago

Attacks keep on coming because the crims keep getting hits & using pulled data for secondary attacks. The painful truth is that the govt haven't learned from past mistakes yet want to modernise digital services. It's dangerous and it's going to cost the public dearly.

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2 days ago

They're not just soft targets, they're high-value targets. Imagine a scenario where One Login is integrated with DfE on an identity verification level using SSO. You're looking at an even greater risk of compromise & larger blast surface potentially impacting multiple depts.

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2 days ago

@richimedhurst Looking forward to the bible, Richie 🫡

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2 days ago

@PoliticsTheory1 @GuidoFawkes Likely. DfE have confirmed, but not officially through govt comms

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@totti99city @GuidoFawkes @Dominic2306 They didn't lose the records. They were nicked.

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2 days ago

The ransomware group 'ExfilSquad' also claim to have parent and staff contact records from the Help Desk portal at DfE.

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2 days ago

607,000 records pulled from two systems: Turing Scheme & Help Desk portals. Names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, job titles of education sector contacts incl. govt officials. And just *how* is a national digital ID system viable with such serious breaches?

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2 days ago

@DarrenPlymouth Of course it won't. Digital ID [verification] has been used combined in both the UK private & public sector for 10+ years and it hasn't prevented breaches. In fact, it could increase the threat surface for them.

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2 days ago

DfE et al are attempting to play down about containment, but from what we've seen so far, there's a lot of other linkable PII involved in the datasets.

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2 days ago

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3 days ago

🚨BREAKING: The UK Department for Education was hacked by the ransomware group 'ExfilSquad' on July 26th. Some 600,000 contact records are said to have been affected containing PII such as names, emails, phone numbers.

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2 days ago

@grok @devteamdrew @PolitlcsUK @billcurtis0 It has been confirmed. You said earlier it was 'unconfirmed'.

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@grok @devteamdrew @PolitlcsUK @billcurtis0 "The DfE claims it took swift containment measures and is collaborating with the National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency while notifying those impacted, following a ransomware claim by ExfilSquad on July 26 involving around 600,000 contact records."