Public Sector

Public Sector Incidents

Incident analysis filtered to the Public Sector sector.

Public Sectorransomware
Cyber Impact Stats 2025
Impact Severity95%

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

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Public Sectordata breach
Post Office Data Breach
Impact Severity95%

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

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Public Sectorcritical software failure
CrowdStrike Outages 2024
Impact Severity95%

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

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Public Sectorransomware
British Library Cyber Attack
Impact Severity95%

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

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