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Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

ID: 7f3dab8d-2e56-5779-9c36-99bbaf2ab09e

STIX ID: report--7f3dab8d-2e56-5779-9c36-99bbaf2ab09e

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2025-06-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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Four employees at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority were issued written warnings for sending FCA data to their personal email accounts during the 2022/23 financial year (one is on a final written warning); the FCA did not disclose the nature or volume of the data. The report frames these cases as examples of insider data-handling risk, references earlier FOI-related leaks across UK public bodies, and includes calls for stronger data protection policies and controls.

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