The Awareness Angle: Cyber Security Awareness and Human Risk
Aug 10, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 13 segments
It's Episode 100 of The Awareness Angle, and the last episode in its current format. This week: more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff have had their details leaked by…
Um, this week's breach of the week, the, the gang that hit the Department for Education, which we spoke about last week, have just leaked 100,000 police staff.
So this is from BleepingComputer, and it's two big public bodies in two weeks, and it's the same crew.
And it does make you wonder that if the police can't keep it safe, who can? That's, I mean, yeah.
So the group calls Ex- called Exfil Squad, and they leaked the details of more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff.
So the data came from the Police National Legal Database, the PNLD, and it was first spotted back on the 26th of July, so not that long ago.
It includes names, organizations, and email addresses, and has already been posted on the dark web, so it's out there.
The Department for Education one, lots of people complained that that didn't get enough coverage.
You know, I know I saw people on Instagram complaining that it wasn't headline news, but-
You don't need a lot of data to build a profile and try and target someone, do you? I think we've shown that.
No. Yeah, it's interesting to, yeah, do the Department for Education and now apparently, um, Police National Database.
It makes you wonder if some level of access or some, somewhere if there's a connection-
Um, this week's breach of the week, the, the gang that hit the Department for Education, which we spoke about last week, have just leaked 100,000 police staff.
So this is from BleepingComputer, and it's two big public bodies in two weeks, and it's the same crew.
And it does make you wonder that if the police can't keep it safe, who can? That's, I mean, yeah.
So the group calls Ex- called Exfil Squad, and they leaked the details of more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff.
So the data came from the Police National Legal Database, the PNLD, and it was first spotted back on the 26th of July, so not that long ago.
It includes names, organizations, and email addresses, and has already been posted on the dark web, so it's out there.
The Department for Education one, lots of people complained that that didn't get enough coverage.
You know, I know I saw people on Instagram complaining that it wasn't headline news, but-
You don't need a lot of data to build a profile and try and target someone, do you? I think we've shown that.
No. Yeah, it's interesting to, yeah, do the Department for Education and now apparently, um, Police National Database.
It makes you wonder if some level of access or some, somewhere if there's a connection-
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