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The British Legal Aid Agency confirmed that attackers who breached its systems in April 2025 stole data ranging from recent applications, claims and payments to approximately 250,000 records dating from before 2007, the oldest of which dates back to 1978. The data includes personal and financial information, criminal records and service-provider data, while there is still no evidence that the stolen data has been published.