Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 100364

Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 23 December 2025

Question

Ms Marie Rimmer

LabourSt Helens South and Whiston

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

Answer

Sarah Sackman
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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