Northern Ireland Data breach

[Charlie1986]

Wow just wow I’ve got friends there in the police force and they are worried about this

[DrDeAtH]

Maybe expand on this with a media link...

The PH masses don't all possess a crystal ball

[gotoPzero]

Sounds like they did it themselves too. Someone needs a course...

[dandarez]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-servi...

and different unconnected/connected (but timely?) security breach at the EC (Electoral Commission)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/probe-launch...

[abzmike]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-664...

More best in class data protection… distinctly not trivial given the context.

[ellroy]

I can only imagine the absolute horror of the PSNI guys, having worked over there back in the day.

They, and their predecessors of the RUC, do a bloody good job in large part & in some extremely trying circumstances.

Let’s hope it doesn’t cause the kind of problems it could.

[Charlie1986]

ellroy said:

I can only imagine the absolute horror of the PSNI guys, having worked over there back in the day.

They, and their predecessors of the RUC, do a bloody good job in large part & in some extremely trying circumstances.

Let’s hope it doesn’t cause the kind of problems it could.

For sure I’ve worked with them a few times and some good friends made. There worried but hopeful it won’t cause the trouble it could for them

[ScotHill]

Summary pivot table where someone forgot to remove the underlying data?

[bitchstewie]

That is just stunningly bad

[P. ONeill]

ellroy said:

I can only imagine the absolute horror of the PSNI guys, having worked over there back in the day.

They, and their predecessors of the RUC, do a bloody good job in large part & in some extremely trying circumstances.

Let’s hope it doesn’t cause the kind of problems it could.

Yes they did a marvellous job, handing over the details of Republicans and innocent nationalists to loyalist death squads during the 70s/80s/90s. At times the lines between the RUC and those carrying out these murders on behalf of the British state were indistinguishable.

Collusion was not an illusion.

[Oliver Hardy]

The data on the police officers was on a web site for two hours!!!!

The spy software on the electoral commission computer was there for a year!!!

[Biker 1]

I'm afraid the technical aspects of the PSNI & electoral commission are above my pay grade, but it seems that public service IT schemes are almost all sub par. What do these data breaches actually mean in practice?

[BobToc]

This is very bad, but I do kind of suspect that most of this is known to Dissident Republicans anyway?

[SS2.]

Biker 1 said:

What do these data breaches actually mean in practice?

Not to trust civil servants with the safeguarding of our data.

[Murph7355]

Shocker.

Bad failure of, or very poor process there. Hopefully it won’t cause any serious problems. But I can imagine people are very worried there.

[ellroy]

P. ONeill said:

Yes they did a marvellous job, handing over the details of Republicans and innocent nationalists to loyalist death squads during the 70s/80s/90s. At times the lines between the RUC and those carrying out these murders on behalf of the British state were indistinguishable.

Collusion was not an illusion.

Nor were the 312 murdered an illusion.

[Unreal]

ellroy said:

P. ONeill said:

Yes they did a marvellous job, handing over the details of Republicans and innocent nationalists to loyalist death squads during the 70s/80s/90s. At times the lines between the RUC and those carrying out these murders on behalf of the British state were indistinguishable.

Collusion was not an illusion.

Nor were the 312 murdered an illusion.

Remind me who killed the majority of people who died during the The Troubles. It was a very dirty conflict. Some people decided that playing by the rules wasn't as effective as playing by the same rules as the other side.

[BobToc]

We don’t need to engage in whataboutery. Representatives of the British state acted in ways that were unacceptable and deserve consequences. Acknowledging that doesn’t diminish the evils of republicans and loyalists.

Now, back to that data leak…

[S600BSB]

Can't quite believe this. Just terrible.

[bigpriest]

Biker 1 said:

I'm afraid the technical aspects of the PSNI & electoral commission are above my pay grade, but it seems that public service IT schemes are almost all sub par. What do these data breaches actually mean in practice?

Bit of a leap isn't it? With that logic then surely all private sector IT schemes are almost all sub par. This particular issue was caused by someone transferring data to an Excel spreadsheet and leaving it in as part of an FoI request. What's surprising is that a summary count of staff by pay/grade is not already published somewhere for the public to access (like an Annual Report) negating the need to complete the FoI Request.