Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime
Commons · Question 15496 · Tabled 2 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 10 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, a) what impact the 2025 cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency has had on data collection and publication, and b) what his Department is doing in response.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 10 Jul 2026
As a precaution following the identification of the criminal attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) digital portal, some of the LAA’s digital services were taken offline. This constrained the LAA’s ability to centrally collect and report on data across al...