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And i think, like we ve been discussing, it s a supply chain attack, and criminals have simply located that weakest link in that chain, which they re very good and getting better at doing. but police suppliers, they win their contracts and often choose the cheapest, which can potentially come with security risks and failures if that s not in the programme to start off with. right, but would it not be the responsibility of the metropolitan police to check the security standards of any third parties? it would be, but sometimes it s a race to the finish on these tenders that go out to, say, ten suppliers at once, it will come down to just a few, but often it s the cheapest that mightjust get through, and sometimes they have time restraints on how quickly they can do it. and unfortunately, it s those issues that allow these mistakes to occur. the next question of course is, what s the motivation of a hacker in using this data?
Jake moore is a global cybersecurity advisor at the software firm eset, and he gave his reaction to the suspected data breach. well, i think this is yet another worrying and damaging blunder by the organisation that s designed to protect us. and i think, like we ve been discussing, it s a supply chain attack, and criminals have simply located that weakest link in that chain, which they re very good and getting better at doing. but police suppliers, they win their contracts and often choose the cheapest, which can potentially come with security risks and failures if that s not in the programme to start off with. right, but would it not be the responsibility of the metropolitan police to check the security standards of any third parties? it would be, but sometimes it s a race to the finish on these tenders that go out to, say, ten suppliers at once,
Tenders that go out to, say, ten suppliers at once, it will come down to just a few. but often it s the cheapest that mightjust get through, and sometimes they have time restraints on how quickly they can do it. and unfortunately, it s those issues that allow these mistakes to occur. the next question of course is, what s the motivation of a hacker in using this data? well, it s unclear whether the hackers have demanded a ransom, or whether this was purely a criminal group testing the force s security. like we ve seen, a few police forces come under a few problems recently, that doesn t mean to say it s one criminal group that s conducting this, it could just be others just testing that security. but i think what we ve really got a take from that is, rather than what s happening, going forward, we need to be setting some sort of review and looking at how we can test and check how this data is stored and handled in the future. but because of the implications