Police Service of Northern Ireland in major data breach affecting officers and civilian staff - report

Writing on X , he said:"My officials are in close contact with senior officers and are keeping me updated."

Explaining how the breach happened, Mr Todd said:"What's happened is we've received a Freedom of Information request, that's quite a routine inquiry, nothing untoward in that. "We've responded to that request, which was seeking to understand the total numbers of officers and staff at all ranks and grade across the organisation, and in the response, unfortunately, one of our colleagues has embedded the source data, which informed that request.

"So, what was within that data was the surname, initial, the rank or grade, the location and the departments for each of our current employees across the police service." According to the Belfast Telegraph, a spreadsheet was published online relating to how many officers the PSNI has of each rank - but the spreadsheet had a second tab that contained more detailed information about thousands of staff members and their employment.An ICO spokesperson said:"The Police Service of Northern Ireland has made us aware of an incident and we are assessing the information provided.

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