| INDEX | May 8, 2024 | |
| Spooks with red faces, soldiers at risk | ||
| SOURCES | On Tuesday we learnt of the theft of a large volume of data from the Dumfries and Galloway NHS. This included confidential records of children.
Now I don't know what the point of GCHQ is but if there was a point I'd say it would to stop criminals from extracting and publishing this sort of data. It does not seem to me sufficient to wring your hands and say the data was published on the dark web, there's nothing we can do. If they are genuinely powerless then what is the point of them? Then yesterday we learnt of a much more serious data breach. Someone has hacked into the army payroll and could have obtained details of home addresses, bank accounts and other sensitive data. As ever China was blamed though China said the allegations were 'absurd'. Blaming China is convenient because MI5 has been trying to set itself up as the protector against Chinese aggression, even though little if any evidence has ever been obtained to back up this fanciful claim. More likely, in my view, blame the Russians or someone acting on behalf of the Russians. This is because recently Russia was extremely annoyed by David Cameron telling the Ukranians they were free to use British supplied munitions to attack inside Russia Russia also has a track record since it was said to be behind the leaking of a secret meeting of German military commanders that revealed British boots were on the ground in Ukraine. The Brits were providing training for the use of sophisticated military hardware. From the Russian perspective it might be quite useful if British troops engaged in fighting them, feared that their wives and children might have been identified. Just a thought. But who knows MI5 may have got it right for once? I know it's unlikely but surely they have to get it right just randomly occasionally? | |
| sky news May 7, 2024 'Large volume' of data stolen from NHS Dumfries and Galloway published on dark web | ||
| REUTERS May 7, 2024 'Malign actor' hacked UK defence ministry payroll, Sunak says after China reports | ||
| REUTERS May 6, 2024 Russia warns Britain it could strike back after Cameron remark on Ukraine | ||
| REUTERS March 5, 2024 Why a leaked German military recording on Ukraine aid is causing an outcry | ||
| INDEX Jonathan Brind |
May 8, 2024 | |