Parents of Southport attack victim 'devastated' by data breach

The parents of a child injured in the Southport attack have said they are devastated after court files were accessed without authorisation. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said an urgent investigation had been launched after court files detailing victims, their families and survivors of the attack on the dance class in July 2024 were accessed without authorisation. It comes after it emerged earlier this year that the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) was looking into whether staff inappropriately accessed the records of victims. The parents of one of the injured children said: Our family has once again been devastated by two data breaches that involve our daughter, NWAS and now the MoJ. The parents, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, continued: This culture of snooping across agencies and services must end and that will only happen if those individuals are held to account and not protected by the very confidentiality laws they flouted to access our daughter's information.