Cyber-attack on Foreign Office raises data breach concerns
The Foreign Office was hit by a cyber-attack in October 2025. When the UK government confirmed the attack in December, it assessed the risk of impact on individuals as low. Ministers said they were fairly confident that personal data had not been put at risk.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Foreign Office
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- United Kingdom
Timeline
- The UK government confirmed the October cyber-attack on the Foreign Office and said the risk of impact on individuals was low.
- UK ministers said they were fairly confident that personal data had not been put at risk.
Also affected by this incident
Home Office visa application records leaked to Chinese hacking group
↳ Knock-on damage from the Foreign Office incident · View original incidentVisa application records held by the Home Office were leaked by a Chinese hacking group. The scale of the leak, the specific data involved, the date of the incident and response measures have not been confirmed.
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