Armed Forces: Recruitment

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department reported the recent data breach in the Defence Recruiting System to the Information Commissioner's Office.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 21st April 2022

On Monday 14 March 2022, Army HQ were made aware of a breach of information in relation to potential Army candidate data. The breach related to 124 potential candidates whose accounts had been accessed on 13 March.

After an initial investigation to assess and understand the extent and nature of the data breach, the MOD submitted the formal Breach Notification to the Information Commissioner's Office on Monday 21 March 2022 at 1100.

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