Sensitive MoD information exposed through personal email accounts

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The Ministry of Defence logged 151 security incidents in 2020, compared to 75 in 2019

Secret information belonging to the Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) was exposed to outside forces in multiple breaches last year after employees transferred files from secure networks to person...

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