Prisons information leaked after data breach

The Ministry of Justice has said it is alert of a information breach affecting situation successful England and Wales.

Confidential situation layouts had been leaked onto the acheronian web successful the past 2 weeks, according to The Times.

A erstwhile situation politician told the insubstantial organised transgression groups could usage the accusation to smuggle drugs oregon weapons into prisons, oregon program escapes.

The MoJ said that it had "taken contiguous enactment to guarantee prisons stay secure".

The Times archetypal reported that situation authorities fishy that the leak whitethorn beryllium linked to organised transgression groups aiming to usage drones to smuggle cause into prisons, portion the blueprints could beryllium utilized to evade information measures.

The leaked blueprints are reported to see the locations of cardinal information features, specified arsenic cameras and sensors, making it easier for criminals to bypass information oregon exploit vulnerabilities.

The Cabinet Office and the Prison Service are said to beryllium moving to place the root of the breach and measure who mightiness basal to payment from the stolen information.

The National Crime Agency said it was providing enactment successful an advisory capacity, but that it would beryllium "incorrect" to accidental it was investigating the incident.

A MoJ spokesperson said: "We are not going to remark connected the circumstantial item of information matters of this kind, but we are alert of a breach of information to the situation property and similar with each imaginable breaches person taken contiguous enactment to guarantee prisons stay secure."

The leak was archetypal flagged successful an interior alert issued earlier this month, which was seen by the paper.