Public Sector

UK universities are among those targeted by a cyber threat group associated with the Iranian government

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252447510/UK-universities-targeted-by-Iranian-hackers

A council worker has admitted defrauding around £60,000 from the Grenfell Tower victim fund.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45354033

A Kensington and Chelsea Council worker has been charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position, one count of theft by employee and one count of money laundering. accused of taking money meant for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2018-08-30/council-worker-charged-for-grenfell-tower-fraud/

The recently established NHS Counter Fraud Authority is seeking a supplier of commercial fraud analytics software as it looks to tackle an estimated £1.25 billion annual fraud problem across the National Health Service.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/nhs-fraud-data-help

The FoI request, carried out by IT services company Comparex, received 81 complete or partial responses from London borough, metropolitan and county councils in England

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252447337/Councils-at-risk-from-unsupported-Windows-Server-and-SQL-Server

A senior NHS manager who treated his local trust as his "personal cash machine" has been jailed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-45100817

The charity is asking for the company to reinstate funding for students whose instalments are being withheld without any proof of fraud.

http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Student/2018-08-11/we_spoke_to_estranged_students_about_facebook_monitoring_by_the_student_loan_company.html

Fraud affecting the NHS is a £1.29 billion-a-year problem that takes money away from frontline patient care.

http://www.nhsconfed.org/blog/2018/08/together-we-can-fight-nhs-fraud-and-return-vital-funds-to-health-services

A new data matching service used by a council has uncovered a serious case of fraud by a woman who claimed more than £2,000 of benefit she was not entitled to.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16410445.data-matching-service-uncovers-serious-richmond-fraud/

Convicted NHS fraudster has been ordered to pay back over £96,000, to be split between a hospice and the NHS, following successful financial recovery action by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority

https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/latest-news/NHSCFA-recover-97K-from-NHS-fraudster-Jon-Andrewes