Question follow-through · 100364

Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what types of personal and sensitive data were compromised in the April 2025 cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) including whether the breach included information on vulnerable individuals such as victims

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 16 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what types of personal and sensitive data were compromised in the April 2025 cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) including whether the breach included information on vulnerable individuals such as victims

  2. 18 Dec 2025

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  3. 23 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    We take the security of people’s personal data extremely seriously. Firstly, to ensure transparency about the cyber- attack and that we reached as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice shortly after ...

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