The Times is reporting that hackers took more than 607,000 records from the Department for Education in an attack last week. Compromised data covers full names, job titles, phone numbers and email addresses of government officials, head teachers, and university staff…
The DfE help desk and Turing Scheme records were hit. Hackers calling themselves ExfilSquad claimed responsibility in dark web posts. DfE has self-referred to the Information Commissioner and the NCA…
We have yet to see how the new Education Secretary Lucy Powell will deal with this. She was on holiday last week – just after filling the post – and over the weekend, as the hacking and publication of records occurred…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”