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Sellafield operators plead guilty to criminal charges over security breaches

The state-owned operator of the UK’s largest nuclear waste site has pleaded
guilty to criminal charges brought by the industry regulator over IT
security breaches. Lawyers acting for Sellafield told a London court on
Thursday that they accepted cyber security was “not sufficiently adhered
to for a period”, although they insisted there had not been a successful
cyber-attack and that its systems were now secure.

One of the charges to which Sellafield pleaded guilty was that it failed in March last year to
“ensure that there was adequate protection of sensitive nuclear
information on its information technology network”. The other two charges
related to failures to arrange “annual health checks” for its systems.
Sellafield pleaded guilty to all three charges in the prosecution brought
by the Office for Nuclear Regulation under the Nuclear Industries Security
Regulations 2003. Sentencing will take place on August 8……………………………………

FT 20th June 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/a91cb392-0a32-48b4-bc7a-5b2a1debbc96

June 22, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal