Home Office visa application records leaked to Chinese hacking group
SpilloverSpillover from the Foreign Office incident · View original incident →Visa 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.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Home Office
- Original incident
- Cyber-attack on Foreign Office raises data breach concerns
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Hacking by a Chinese hacking group
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Timeline
- It was reported that Home Office visa application records had been leaked by a Chinese hacking group.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Foreign Office incident.
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.
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