https://www.zdnet.com/article/london-police-software-quarantines-thousands-of-cybercrime-reports/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet
October 25, 2019

Over 9,000 cybercrime reports filed by UK citizens have sat inside a police
database without being investigated after security software mistakenly
identified them as containing malicious code and placed them in quarantine.

All the quarantined reports came from Action Fraud, an official UK police
website where victims can report fraud and cybercrime.

According to an audit published this week by the HMICFRS (Her Majesty's
Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services), thousands of these
reports never reached police officers.

Instead, the software that scanned submissions for malware mislabeled incoming
reports and set them aside, never reaching any human operator.

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