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Legal Aid Agency hack exposes applicants' criminal records
The Ministry of Justice said hackers downloaded a large amount of data on legal aid applicants in England and Wales, later confirmed as dating back to 2007, including criminal history and financial details; the group claimed 2.1 million records.
- Organisation
- Legal Aid Agency
- Disclosed
- 19 May 2025
- Affected
- 2,100,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Names, addresses, dates of birth, NI numbers, criminal history, financial data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- UK
- Source
- GOV.UK ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Legal Aid Agency hack exposes applicants' criminal records”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 19 May 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-05-19-legal-aid-agency-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: GOV.UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-breach.
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