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Police Service of Northern Ireland

Police Service of Northern Ireland Data Breach (2018)

Police Service of Northern Ireland

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Disclosed

January 1, 2018

3007 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Lost Device

Industry

Government

Description

personal data from hundreds of people appeared to have been inadvertently passed onto suspected loyalist paramilitaries by the PSNI. It reported that police were understood to have examined a number of computer devices seized from loyalists but that in returning one of them police had left a pen drive in the computer containing the private data