The Office for Budget Responsibility got hammered with almost 240,000 cyber attacks over the past year, which is wild considering they just leaked the Chancellor's Budget by accident a few weeks back. Richard Hughes quit as chair after the flagship fiscal document showed up online before Rachel Reeves could even deliver her speech, and an investigation found it was just human error with a WordPress plugin rather than hackers breaking through.
A former National Cyber Security Centre boss led the probe and discovered the team misunderstood some Download Monitor settings, plus they forgot to block direct file access on their server. Journalists basically just tweaked a URL and grabbed the whole thing. Security people are saying the sheer volume of attack attempts shows how vulnerable government bodies are, and the sloppy website management needs to get fixed immediately before something even worse happens.
A former National Cyber Security Centre boss led the probe and discovered the team misunderstood some Download Monitor settings, plus they forgot to block direct file access on their server. Journalists basically just tweaked a URL and grabbed the whole thing. Security people are saying the sheer volume of attack attempts shows how vulnerable government bodies are, and the sloppy website management needs to get fixed immediately before something even worse happens.
