ACRO was forced to shut its systems offline and security experts are suggesting ransomware may be involved

April 5, 2023 By Connor Jones
The UK’s national office for managing criminal record information (ACRO) has confirmed it’s currently trying to recover from a two-month “cyber security incident”.
Few details were revealed by the organisation and other authorities, other than that the attack took place between 17 January and 21 March 2023.
There is currently no evidence that personal data or payment information has been affected by the incident, ACRO told ITPro.
ACRO was forced to take its website offline on 21 March.
The same day, ACRO’s customer service Twitter account alerted customers that the outage was due to “essential website maintenance” and that online applications were unavailable.