A total of 1,230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, have had their data breached by Norfolk and Suffolk police forces.
They said the information was attached to a “very small percentage” of responses to FOI requests for crime statistics issued by the forces between April 2021 and March 2022.
Both the Norfolk and Suffolk forces described the data as “hidden from anyone opening the files” and said they had found “nothing to suggest” it had been accessed by “anyone outside of policing”.
Suffolk Temporary Assistant Chief Constable, Eamonn Bridger, who led the investigation on behalf of both forces, said once they were aware of the breach, they took “immediate steps” to react and to remove the data from the public domain.
"The management of information is a complex area of policing, especially when we’re talking about huge volumes of data… occasionally things can go wrong.
Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, said: "The potential impact of a breach like this reminds us that data protection is about people.
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A total of 1,230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, have had their data breached by Norfolk and Suffolk police forces.
They said the information was attached to a “very small percentage” of responses to FOI requests for crime statistics issued by the forces between April 2021 and March 2022.
Both the Norfolk and Suffolk forces described the data as “hidden from anyone opening the files” and said they had found “nothing to suggest” it had been accessed by “anyone outside of policing”.
Suffolk Temporary Assistant Chief Constable, Eamonn Bridger, who led the investigation on behalf of both forces, said once they were aware of the breach, they took “immediate steps” to react and to remove the data from the public domain.
"The management of information is a complex area of policing, especially when we’re talking about huge volumes of data… occasionally things can go wrong.
Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, said: "The potential impact of a breach like this reminds us that data protection is about people.
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