Detailed info wound up in quarantine
Just one of Britain's 43 police forces treats online crime as a priority – while the Action Fraud organisation managed to withhold 9,000 so-called cyber-crime reports from cops thanks to badly configured antivirus on its reporting portal, according to a government watchdog.
Software intended to screen reports about online threats sent to Action Fraud by members of the public was incorrectly triggered when members of the public, er, tried to report cyber threats against them.
A police database called Know Fraud, operated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), was incorrectly holding some detailed reports in quarantine after an "updating" of the system in October 2018.
"In some cases the automated system mistakenly identified reports as containing malicious coding," said the poker-faced watchdog, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS). (This used to be called pl ..
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