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This was the result of an error made after a freedom of information request.
The lives of over 6,000 serving police officers have now been put at risk.
Should heads roll and if so - how far up?
This was the result of an error made after a freedom of information request.
The lives of over 6,000 serving police officers have now been put at risk.
Should heads roll and if so - how far up?
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ynnafymmi I agree with oldandconfus
15:14 Sun 13th Aug 2023
wolf63
It may have been a moment of incompetence but because the impact of the data breach was so serious, management have a duty to ensure systems are in place to prevent it happening in the first place.
The freedom of information request was for the number of officers serving in each rank - instead a spreadsheet giving full names officers plus their rank and home addresses was leaked.
Management failing in their duty of care - that source data should’ve been locked up and controls should’ve been put in place to guard against it being accessed.
It may have been a moment of incompetence but because the impact of the data breach was so serious, management have a duty to ensure systems are in place to prevent it happening in the first place.
The freedom of information request was for the number of officers serving in each rank - instead a spreadsheet giving full names officers plus their rank and home addresses was leaked.
Management failing in their duty of care - that source data should’ve been locked up and controls should’ve been put in place to guard against it being accessed.
YNNAFYMMI, the request was, "Could you please provide me with the number of officers and staff at each rank or grade distinguishing between how many are substantive/temporary/acting as of 01/08/2023. Could you please provide this information in the form of tables for officers and tables for staff."
Had that been the only information given, it would not have been a problem.
Had that been the only information given, it would not have been a problem.
Gromit
The information was on the PSNI website as a result of the freedom of information request.
Also - it didn’t contain their addresses…I was wrong there.
And it’s not 6,000 names - it’s 10,000 names - as it included staff on career breaks etc.
ynnafymmi - TCL is correct. If it *were* a member of Sinn Fein the information requested would hardly be of any use.
The information was on the PSNI website as a result of the freedom of information request.
Also - it didn’t contain their addresses…I was wrong there.
And it’s not 6,000 names - it’s 10,000 names - as it included staff on career breaks etc.
ynnafymmi - TCL is correct. If it *were* a member of Sinn Fein the information requested would hardly be of any use.
ynnafymmi
Think about it.
Why would a Sinn Fein infiltrator go to the trouble of posting the information online.
If he or she had access to the information, surely it could be copied to a thumb drive, and handed over to whomever.
But let’s not waste time with Mission Improbable-style storylines and stick with the facts.
Think about it.
Why would a Sinn Fein infiltrator go to the trouble of posting the information online.
If he or she had access to the information, surely it could be copied to a thumb drive, and handed over to whomever.
But let’s not waste time with Mission Improbable-style storylines and stick with the facts.
'Initial investigations have now established some of what happened. A security source has told the Belfast Telegraph that the request came to the FoI unit and was passed to HR. The source said it was at this point that the data — known as the 3C Personnel List — entered the spreadsheet.
A second source said that even superintendents in charge of whole districts do not have access to the material.
The list, by now not immediately visible when the document was opened, but in a second tab in the spreadsheet, then went to another part of HR for “quality assurance” before being sent outside HR to the FoI unit.
It then sent the data to the PSNI communications department which takes an interest in material which might interest journalists — ironically, given what was to follow, it missed the biggest data breach story the UK has ever seen.
The data returned to the FoI unit, which issued it. But there was a final bulwark which ought to have made this release difficult. The PSNI has a security system which prevents email attachments being sent to external addresses without first being checked.
Even though this was an Excel spreadsheet whose enormous size — 1.5mb — indicated it contained gargantuan volumes of information, that system either failed to raise an alarm, or the alarm was ignored.
That meant that five police processes failed to spot that something was seriously amiss. When put to the PSNI yesterday, it did not dispute that is what happened.'
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Unless you honestly believe IRA/Sinn Féin sympathizers were involved at each stage, it appears only to be several folk not doing their jobs properly.
A second source said that even superintendents in charge of whole districts do not have access to the material.
The list, by now not immediately visible when the document was opened, but in a second tab in the spreadsheet, then went to another part of HR for “quality assurance” before being sent outside HR to the FoI unit.
It then sent the data to the PSNI communications department which takes an interest in material which might interest journalists — ironically, given what was to follow, it missed the biggest data breach story the UK has ever seen.
The data returned to the FoI unit, which issued it. But there was a final bulwark which ought to have made this release difficult. The PSNI has a security system which prevents email attachments being sent to external addresses without first being checked.
Even though this was an Excel spreadsheet whose enormous size — 1.5mb — indicated it contained gargantuan volumes of information, that system either failed to raise an alarm, or the alarm was ignored.
That meant that five police processes failed to spot that something was seriously amiss. When put to the PSNI yesterday, it did not dispute that is what happened.'
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Unless you honestly believe IRA/Sinn Féin sympathizers were involved at each stage, it appears only to be several folk not doing their jobs properly.
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