Cyber crime scenes "not being preserved"

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Evidence destroyed by careless IT staff, rushing to get systems back up and running after cyber attacks

The "scenes of cyber crimes" are being disrupted by organisations and IT professionals that do not know how to respond to a cyber attack, undermining criminal investigations before they have even s...

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