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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 19:26:26 GMT
Catastrophic PSNI blunder identifies every serving police officer and civilian staff with 345,000 pieces of data, prompting security nightmare. The PSNI is tonight desperately attempting to contact its officers after a massive police data breach meant the force mistakenly published the names, ranks, locations and other personal data of every serving police officer and many civilian employees. The data from the PSNI’s ultra-confidential human resources system is a gold mine for terrorists, offering details of officers working in intelligence and other highly sensitive areas. The material was wrongly published on the internet today by the PSNI in what appears to be human error involving spreadsheet fields. link
Yet another data leak, this time with life threatening consequences. Yet we are increasingly encouraged to go paperless, go cashless, go digital because it's easy, and don't forget, your personal data is always protected, right kids... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2023 19:45:26 GMT
How on earth does that type of data get published accidentally? It sounds malicious to me. Some dangerous renegade within PSNI? There's going to be hell to pay over this. Some could pay with their lives. On a scale of 1 to 10 it's a grade 11 security disaster. All happening in a time of heightened terrorist threat. www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 20:43:29 GMT
The PSNI are confident it was human error, and I'm not surprised. Data leaks are so common it's almost laughable, yet we're constantly encouraged to live our lives online and trust digital technology. Ha.
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 21:13:50 GMT
Digressing slightly but yet another example of how secure our digital data is... Hackers may have stolen millions of voters' details in electoral register attack. link |
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Post by wapentake on Aug 8, 2023 22:05:49 GMT
And we’re supposed to put our faith in technology,what could possibly go wrong?
Up next an apology, lessons have been learnt,this won’t happen again.
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 22:55:42 GMT
And we’re supposed to put our faith in technology,what could possibly go wrong? Up next an apology, lessons have been learnt,this won’t happen again. Sadly Wap, we have no control over who has access to our personal information. We can limit the amount of information we give, although most people don't, once you're committed to paying by apps your movements are tracked and recoded, and there's fuck all you can do about it. |
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Post by bancroft on Aug 9, 2023 10:40:15 GMT
How on earth does that type of data get published accidentally? It sounds malicious to me. Some dangerous renegade within PSNI? There's going to be hell to pay over this. Some could pay with their lives. On a scale of 1 to 10 it's a grade 11 security disaster. All happening in a time of heightened terrorist threat. www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levelsI think like you there must at a guess 30,000 officers there and with names and address data that is not easy to share as it is so big. I would also think foul play is at work and the PTB there are trying to allay fears. If I was an officer I would look to move and potentially get a name change. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 10, 2023 21:53:25 GMT
Dissident republicans, the sort of people Paddy Biden supports, claim they are in possession of the data leak. Which means they have the identities of not only all uniformed police, but all MI5 agents and undercover police in Northern Ireland. This is unbelievable. It's no use saying heads should roll, on this occasion that would achieve nothing. I feel for those people, living in a constant state of alert was stressful enough for six months, but the RUC/UDR lived with it all the time, as do todays PSNI.
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Post by bancroft on Aug 11, 2023 12:39:25 GMT
I really think they need to work out how this happened as otherwise it might happen again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2023 13:14:35 GMT
I really think they need to work out how this happened as otherwise it might happen again. Pointless. The cat is out of the bag. What it does show is that everything on the Internet, (despite government assurances, Secure Socket Layer codes and website certificates, data protection laws and assurances about our data,) is hackable and we need to treat it as such. Nothing is safe. |
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Post by bancroft on Aug 11, 2023 13:52:28 GMT
I really think they need to work out how this happened as otherwise it might happen again. Pointless. The cat is out of the bag. What it does show is that everything on the Internet, (despite government assurances, Secure Socket Layer codes and website certificates, data protection laws and assurances about our data,) is hackable and we need to treat it as such. Nothing is safe. Well say half move and it happens a year later, that is why you need to understand what has happened. |
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Post by patman post on Aug 11, 2023 15:27:39 GMT
Just as the Republican terrorists were supplied arms and Semtex from anti west countries in the past, what’s to say help with cyber attacks, public disorder, and spying are not being supplied by Argentina, China, Russia, etc, for similar purposes….?
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Post by bancroft on Aug 12, 2023 13:09:26 GMT
Just as the Republican terrorists were supplied arms and Semtex from anti west countries in the past, what’s to say help with cyber attacks, public disorder, and spying are not being supplied by Argentina, China, Russia, etc, for similar purposes….? All feasible yet more likely a disgruntled employee with Republican sympathies. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Aug 13, 2023 13:16:47 GMT
And we’re supposed to put our faith in technology,what could possibly go wrong? Up next an apology, lessons have been learnt,this won’t happen again. Sadly Wap, we have no control over who has access to our personal information. We can limit the amount of information we give, although most people don't, once you're committed to paying by apps your movements are tracked and recoded, and there's fuck all you can do about it. My first computer was a ZX80. I've known what computers can do for a very long time. I've never used a mobile App. There are of course things I do leave on computers, like this message for example. One does what one can. Besides you have to weigh up the positives and negatives. I've never really had any use for a mobile except to make a very odd call which I can usually do on the nearest telephone. |
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Post by wapentake on Aug 14, 2023 17:30:05 GMT
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