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What’s The Betting No-One Gets Sacked For This?

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sp1814 | 13:05 Sun 13th Aug 2023 | News
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https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2023-08-11/leaked-psni-data-can-be-accessed-within-three-minutes

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 oldandconfused. The IRA are highly unlikely to have any use for the information that was released in error. The computer system and its managers are at fault. An error like this should never have been possible. Security was lax.
15:14 Sun 13th Aug 2023
It was done in error, a moment of incompetence.

The really awful bit of the story is that the fact that there had been a data breach was not revealed to this who were affected by it.
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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.
A FOI request?...Probably asked by a SinnFein/IRA apologist to try and get the information to murder more innocents.
The spreadsheet is/was on the PSNI website and easily accessible in 2 or 3 minutes.
Why would anyone need a FOI if it was already published and available to all ?
Where have you seen the spreadsheet is on the PSNI website?
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.
Gromit the information was not readily available. Please provide evidence or retract your assertion
So who gave out the information?An IRA terrorist infiltrator in the PSNI?SinnFein/IRA have a lot to answer for here.
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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.
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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.
I'm pretty sure someone will be sacked. The actual bod that made the screw up, and potentially their line manager, depending on how much they were involved.
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emeritus

I think Gromit just misread the article. No need for the Spanish Inquisition!
Sp he made a statement that was clearly incorrect. It needed to be clarified. Fake news is dangerous. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition !
@14.50.Always remember to use the term SinnFein/IRA when you reply to my posts.
But, but, Sinn Fein is now a mainstream political party sharing power in Northern Ireland.

Why would one of them pass information to a terrorist organisation?

That would be the old days. After you with the Armalite, Seamus.
@15.01.BA,surely Douggie.This three days before the Omagh massacre.As ive said SinnFein/IRA have a lot to answer for,a lot of blood on their hands.Bastrads.
"three days before the 25th anniversary of the Omagh massacre"
'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.'

https://archive.ph/Gb2m1

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.

Aye,right.Three days before the anniversary of the SinnFein/IRA massacre at Omagh do you not think these terrorist bastrads wont want to be dipping their already bloodied hands in more blood.
It was an error.
The individual stating the IRA are doing it 3 days before the anniversary of a heinous attack needs their head examined.

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