UK government confirms massive data breach following hack of Legal Aid Agency

Cases like this open up a very interesting question. When we talk about protecting UK PLC, we often talk about protecting critical national infrastructure. The reality is that CNI is typically quite resilient, typically it will bounce back, but stuff like this is about public services that are very much critical and I think there’s a missing piece in that debate about how we prioritise and view these things from a public safety standpoint.”