Government faces questions after review of 11 major UK data breaches | Data protection

The government faces calls to explain all the suggestions of the 2023 examination, the exposure of the Afghans working with the British army, the victims of sexual abuse of child sexual abuse and 6,000 disability plaintiffs.
Thursday ministers Finally published the information security review At the Northern Irish police service, approximately 10,000 service officials were triggered by 2023 personal data leakage.
The examination of 11 public sector data violations covering HMRC, Metropolitan Police, Utility System and MOD by Cabinet Office officials found three common themes:
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Lack of control on temporary downloads and collection exports of precision data.
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Publication of sensitive information by “wrong buyer” E -Posts and BCC is not used properly.
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Hidden personal data from electronic tables for release.
22 months after the release of the investigation and a month after the infiltration of the 18,700 Afghan database, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee President Chi Onwurah was welcomed. But he said: “This took an intervention from the committee and the information commissioner for this to happen.”
The Afghan data violation led to the Taliban and the United Kingdom to fear the security of people who allowed thousands of Afghan to replace Afghan within a secret plan.
The government said it gave 12 of 14 proposals on the increase in data security. Onwurah said: “The government still has questions to answer the review. Why only 12 of the 14 suggestions were applied? And why did Afghanbreach hide the existence of this examination for so long even after opening the public?
“The public needs the public to rely on the ambitions of using technology to increase the economy and to transform our public sector, to rely on the fact that it can keep its data safe.
The information commissioner John Edwards called the government to “go faster and faster to ensure Whitehall and to regulate wider public sector practices”.
Minister Pat McFadden said on Thursday that “the government’s information security examination should fully implement the suggestions as a matter of urgency”.
It was not immediately clear which of the 14 suggestions were not yet applied. The full list included the need to initiate a Behavioral Impact Communication Campaign to address permanent Bad information processing practices ve and the necessity of launching a behavioral impact communication campaign to address permanent bad information processing practices to evaluate the existing guidance on technical controls for products and services that contain “official” information.
McFadden and Science, Innovation and Technology Foreign Minister Peter Kyle said in a letter to Onwurah on Thursday: “Good progress was made, but we must protect against peace of mind. This is an area where we need to keep a consistent focus to ensure that the standards continue to recover.”
A government spokesman said: “This investigation ended in 2023 under the previous government.
“Protecting national security, including the security of government data, is one of our primary responsibilities. Since we have seized power, we have strengthened security guidance among departments, updated the compulsory training for civil servants and explained their plans to raise the digital infrastructure throughout the public sector, as stated in our plan for the modern digital government.”




