Fallout from Hackney Council's 2020 data breach continues
Hackney Council suffered a data breach in 2020. The council responded to the UK Information Commissioner's Office investigation into the cyber-attack in 2024, and was still dealing with problems caused by the incident in January 2025.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Hackney Council
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- United Kingdom
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- Hackney Council issued a statement on the UK Information Commissioner's Office investigation into the cyber-attack.
- It emerged that Hackney Council was still dealing with problems caused by the 2020 data breach.
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