Written questions

Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity

Commons · Question 8853 · Tabled 10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 19 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Iqbal Mohamed

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all people whose personal data was accessed during the April 2025 Legal Aid breach have been notified directly.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 19 Jun 2026

We take the security of people’s personal data extremely seriously.We are working hard to identify those whose data may have been stolen by the criminal attackers. Given the scale of the services the LAA delivers, the timespan of the data involved, and th...