Backbytes: ICO gets hacked. Investigates itself. Will probably decide to be lenient

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The question is, how much will it fine itself?

How embarrassing. One day, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is lecturing organisations about their lackadaisical attitude to information security, the next, it's being hacked itself - an...

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