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Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police

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Feed Name: The Guardian – Data & Computer Security

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-07-29

Date Updated: 2026-07-29

Author: Dan Milmo and Vikram Dodd

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A hacking group calling itself ExfilSquad has claimed responsibility for breaching the UK Department for Education help-desk and Turing portals and the Police National Legal Database, exfiltrating roughly 740,000 records containing contact details and some PNLD passwords; samples were posted publicly and the group is seeking payment, while authorities (NCSC, NCA) and the ICO have been notified and incident containment actions are underway.

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