Gwent Police's failure to report the potential breach stands in stark contrast to a breach at Uber, where the company is accused of paying a hacker to conceal the confirmed theft of information belonging to 57 million customers. It was concluded that there was a high probability no data had been accessed and no risk to any individuals." "There has been no other form of communication (complaints or any malicious activity on our security system). "However, in mitigation, for someone to access this data, they would have had to been actively looking on the specific area of the site, had a reasonable level of technical skill and known a complex URL (which was long in length and a mixture of random characters). "Moving forward, I will seek reassurance that the protection of personal data of the public we serve is of paramount importance and that any lessons learnt from previous breaches are implemented with immediate effect."Ī spokesperson for the force told Sky News: "We are not able to confirm whether this data had been accessed.
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I will be asking the chief constable for a full and comprehensive report on data breaches and the process in place for identifying and acting upon them. "I am responsible for monitoring and scrutinising the performance of Gwent Police. The Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent, Jeff Cuthbert, told Sky News he would also be investigating the incident. Image: The Information Commissioner's Office, led by Elizabeth Denham, is investigating Gwent Police
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