UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978

By Sergiu Gatlan · BleepingComputer · Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 08:06 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978. [...]

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