Public Sector Incidents
Incident analysis filtered to the Public Sector sector.
2025 was a year of bad cyber incidents and attacks, as concluded by Government Research conducted by DSIT. What were their findings? What did they conclude?
Public Sector · 5 min read
Duration
1 year (2025)
Costs
£195,000 - £14.7 Billion
Scope
Multi-site
Despite winning their lawsuit against the Post Office for their handling of the Horizon IT Scandal, UK postmasters were about to receive a bittersweet ending
Public Sector · 5 min read
Duration
55 days
Costs
£5000 individual payouts to victims.
Data Lost
555 Postmasters
CrowdStrike is amongst the most prominent cybersecurity providers today. They support countless businesses across all industries, which makes one simple mistake all the more devastating.
Public Sector · 5 min read
Duration
1 hour
Costs
£385 Million
Scope
Multi-site
The British Library is one of the most famous and largest public libraries in the world. However, in the face of a ransomware attack, they went from digital resource, to being sent back to paper.
Public Sector · 5 min read
Duration
2 years
Costs
£6-7m (Recovery Costs) £1.6m (Lost Income)
Data Lost
600GB of Library Content Leaked; 573GB of Employee Data Leaked