Revealed: FCA admits to three data breaches last year

Information made publicly available

Sophie King
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted that there were three cases of data breaches in 2020 in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by Professional Adviser.

The regulator disclosed that there were three separate incidences where data was accidentally made available to the public or people who should not be able to access that information. PA asked what those breaches were in relation to, but the FCA said it was unable to reveal that information. In February last year, the FCA confessed to another data breach that saw confidential information accidentally made publicly available. It is unclear whether this data breach is included in the three the FCA admitted to above. In May, the financial watchdog said it had sent 4,430 of its empl...

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