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- The Guardian Wednesday 24 July 2019
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In brief
Cybersecurity
Student data stolen in
‘malicious’ IT attack Government
May appoints Mann to
advise on antisemitism
Media
The Times and Sunday
Times ‘can share staff ’
Student data has been stolen in
a “sophisticated and malicious”
cyber-attack, Lancaster University
has revealed. Records and ID
documents were accessed in the
phishing attack and fraudulent
invoices were sent to undergraduate
applicants, a spokesman said.
The university said it became
aware of the breach on Friday. Data
from undergraduate applicants for
2019 and 2020, including names,
addresses, telephone numbers and
email addresses, was accessed.
The student records system was
also breached and the university
said it was contacting a “very small
number” of students who have had
record and ID documents accessed.
A university spokesman said:
“Since Friday we have focused on
safeguarding our IT systems and
identifying and advising students
and applicants aff ected. This work
of our incident team is ongoing,
as is the investigation by law
enforcement agencies.” PA
Theresa May has appointed
the Labour MP John Mann as
an independent adviser on
antisemitism and Imam Qari Asim ,
the deputy chair of the anti-
Muslim hatred working group,
as the government’s adviser on
Islamophobia, to help develop a
legal defi nition.
Mann, a critic of Jeremy
Corbyn’s approach to handling
antisemitism who chairs the
all-p arty parliamentary group
against antisemitism, will advise
the next communities secretary.
May , who used her penultimate
prime minister’s questions to attack
Labour’s record in dealing with
antisemitism within the party, said:
“Antisemitism is racism. It has
absolutely no place in our society
and we must fi ght its bitter scourge
wherever it rears its head. ”
Jessica Elgot
Rupert Murdoch’s News UK has
been given fi nal approval to share
resources across the Times and the
Sunday Times, paving the way for
journalists to work across both titles
and for potential job cuts.
Until now the two publications
have operated as independent
news outlets, as part of agreements
guaranteeing the titles’ editorial
independence, signed by Murdoch
when he bought them in 1981.
The fi nal decision was made
on “ taking out the trash ” day – an
informal name for the rush of
announcements made at the tail end
of a parliamentary session to avoid
scrutiny. The Hacked Off campaign ,
the National Union of Journalists ,
and the Media Reform Coalition
objected to the proposals, citing
issues such as a reduction in media
plurality and the risk to journalists’
jobs. The government agreed with
the newspapers’ case that the
market had changed substantially
since the requirements were
imposed almost four decades ago.
News UK has said the titles would
continue to be run independently
with their own newsrooms and
their own editors: John Witherow
at the Times and Martin Ivens at the
Sunday paper. Jim Waterson
Star in
stripes
A newborn
Malayan tapir
at Chester zoo.
Fewer than
2,500 of this
species remain
in the wild,
their forest
habitats lost
to palm oil
plantations.
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