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millions of pounds for the public purse. legal firms have already made it clear in the last few days that they are ready and available, they are willing to represent all psni staff in this situation. so there is a lot in the mix for now, and the chief concern of police officers and psni staff, of course, will be their security and their safety, both for them and their families, security and their safety, both for them and theirfamilies, and we have heard from the psni about that again today. they said additional security and reassurance patrols are taking place across northern ireland as part of what it has called its organisational response to the fallout from this data leak, and it is a fallout that will continue for quite some time yet.— is a fallout that will continue for quite some time yet. thank you for the undate- — two—thirds of cancer waiting time targets are expected to be scrapped in england. national health service leaders say it will simply the system and hopefully help catch the disease earlier. it's thought the nine current targets will be reduced to three. the proposals have been worked on by clinicians and have been out for consultation since last year. some cancer charities, though,
senior detective was shot and injured. after that the terror threat was raised to severe — that is the highest in the uk. today we did also hearfrom sinn fein policing board member gerry kelly, who said abstracts of that information were posted out side a party office and he said he believed this was done by dissident republicans to show they had the information. and we have also heard that half of the police officers in northern ireland have registered inquiries about potential damages and with more than 10,000 people involved in that data leak, any compensation bill could run to tens of millions of pounds. for the officers and the support staff that the bbc has been speaking to, their chief concern will be their security, their safety and that of their family. security, their safety and that of theirfamily. news confirmed
jerry." something he described as very sinister. and the other two it is claimed were pages with information from the data leak, police officers' ranks and places of work. but mr kelly said the names of those officers were redacted. we are told the member of staff took this down immediately and was holding it in the political party office for police to collect as evidence. last week when the news of the data leak broke we heard from the data leak broke we heard from the chief constable of the psni simon byrne. he said he was aware of claims made by dissident republicans that they had access to this leaked information but that that could not be verified at that moment by the psni. all police officers in northern ireland are targets for dissident republican terrorists. the last attack was just a few months ago when a senior police officer was shot and seriously injured. and the threat level in northern ireland is
they had — said that there was a claim that they had this information, i think it is their— they had this information, i think it is their motive to say, we do have _ it is their motive to say, we do have this — it is their motive to say, we do have this and up the ante in terms of this _ have this and up the ante in terms of this. �* . , , have this and up the ante in terms of this. �* ., , , ., ~ have this and up the ante in terms of this. �* ., , , ., ,, ., of this. and has been talk of potential — of this. and has been talk of potential damages, - of this. and has been talk of potential damages, hasn't i of this. and has been talk of - potential damages, hasn't there? what has been said about that? absolutely, we heard today that around half of the police officers in northern ireland have been touch with the police federation. they represent rank and file officers here potential damages, so we think thatis here potential damages, so we think that is around 3000 officers, whose identities and places of work, their names were posted accidentally online in this data leak. and just to remind you, there are more than 10,000 members of psni staff and officers affected, and if there were financial compensation given to all of them, it is estimated the total bill could run into tends of millions of pounds for the public purse. legalfirms have already
pregnant with twins. it brought condemnation from most sections of northern ireland, who had hoped the violence was over. arrests and trials, criminal and civil, have come and gone, and convictions overturned. as it stands today, no—one has been convicted of the atrocity. in 2013, the then northern ireland secretary theresa villiers said she had decided not to hold a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the 0magh bombing, that she didn't believe there were sufficient grounds beyond what had gone before. but earlier this year, the government announced there would be an independent statutory inquiry, chaired by lord turnbull. tomorrow's anniversary comes amidst the fall—out from last week's psni data leak, with concerns over the safety of police officers and staff from potential dissident attack — a reminder of the fragile peace in northern ireland. in a moment, we'll discuss with today's generation
Cybersecurity firm CloudSEK said the breach, which was discovered on August 2, has unveiled the illicit sharing of the source code of the website of the ministry of road transport and highways
and i suppose the disappointment for me is that i've gone to all that trouble and yet now there is something out there in the public domain. all psni officers are targets for terrorists. but in the past dissident republicans who are against the peace process have often targeted catholic officers. gerry murray has been a police officer for 50 years and represents hundreds of catholic officers who he says have particular concerns over the data leak. they've been targeting catholic officers for quite a considerable amount of time and i suppose they are trying to obstruct the eventuality of normal policing like it would be in hampshire, or whether it be in herne bay in kent. they are trying to hold on to the past. echoes of the past in northern ireland have never gone away. but the psni data breach has left all police officers here and their families extremely fearful of the future. sara girvin, bbc news, belfast.
the more concerning. what we need to do now is get to the bottom of it, we need to find out how it happened and why it happened. what i want to see now is a robust response from the senior command of the psni to deal with this very serious security breach. what is known so far is that the problem came about after a routine request for data under freedom of information laws. but the police also released a huge excel spreadsheet by mistake, containing the personal details. this afternoon, the police said they were investigating another breach. it involves the theft of documents from a car, including the names of 200 workers. the chief constable, simon byrne, has cut short his holiday to try to deal with the crisis. tomorrow, there will be an emergency meeting of the northern ireland policing board, where politicians hold senior officers to account. the data leak has caused worry, anger and fear, and generated the most serious of questions
chris page reports. a data breach on this scale would be extremely serious anywhere. but in northern ireland it is all them also. there are fears the information could be used by paramilitary group's to target police officers stop the surnames in work locations of all 10,000 police staff will put online for two hours. the problem came about after a routine request for data under freedom of information laws. but the police sent a huge excel spreadsheet by mistake and it contained personal details. senior officers are stressing there is no specific concern at the moment that the data leak has caused an immediate security risk. but politicians say they are looking for actions which will reassure everyone a fact did. board members say they want to hear a full assessment on
questions about his leadership, but he said it was about leading them through this. he also admitted that they could be, as a police service, liable to a financial penalty because of this massive data breach, whether that is from the regulator or, indeed, personal officers worried about their data leak. but he said it was still in the very early stages of that investigation and there was end to end review going on, as you can imagine. he also sent daly said that he and the senior leadership apologised unreservedly for the breach. he said that he had spoken personally to staff in the last number of days, who he described as having, a range of emotions. he said that some were pragmatic, he described it as, but also others were anxious, frustrated and angry. now, you may also