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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Travel visa delays after UK’s crime records office hit by cyber ‘incident’

The process of securing an overseas visa has been thrown into disarray after UK’s criminal records office was hit with a two-month cyber security “incident”, the Standard can reveal.

ACRO, the national policing body which manages criminal record information and the exchange of records with other countries, was hit with a cyber security “incident” for two months on its website between January 17 and March 21st.

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