Risk & governance
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78 missing devices, no ICO reports in Scotland
The Scottish Government says encryption and remote-wipe controls meant 78 lost or stolen work devices did not create a personal-data risk requiring notification to the ICO.
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Supplier breach reaches Scottish prosecutors
Scotland’s prosecution service says employee information was exposed through an external supplier, while its own systems, casework, victims, and witnesses remain unaffected.
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Beacon breach reaches sensitive charity records
A UK charity has confirmed that records potentially copied from the Beacon CRM breach include medical and financial information, widening the downstream consequences of the supplier incident.
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Threema outage exposes hosting split
A sustained DDoS campaign disrupted Threema and its colocation provider, while customers running the messaging platform on their own infrastructure remained available.
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€30m banking fraud traced to payment provider flaw
Arrests in Europe and Brazil have followed an investigation into a €30 million German banking fraud that authorities traced to exploitation of a payment provider vulnerability.
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Back-to-school identity sprawl raises cyber exposure
Rapid account provisioning, new devices and expanding EdTech integrations are increasing identity-governance pressure across UK education as schools and colleges prepare for the new academic year.
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Ransomware fragments as data theft gains ground
Check Point recorded 2,139 ransomware leak-site victims in Q2 2026 as active groups reached a record 93 and smaller affiliate-driven operations gained ground.
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SEPPmail acquires Denmark’s CyberPilot
Swiss email-security company SEPPmail has acquired Danish awareness-training provider CyberPilot as it builds a broader European platform around technical controls, phishing simulation and human risk.
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Trezor customers exposed through ShipMonk breach
A breach at logistics provider ShipMonk exposed contact and shipping information belonging to 13,689 Trezor customers across the UK, Europe and other markets.
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Cl0p claims Philips and Shell data theft
Philips has contained an attempted compromise and Shell is investigating a possible incident after Cl0p claimed to have stolen engineering and project information from both companies.