Companies House said a glitch on its online filing service allowing people to view and edit data for other businesses and their directors may have gone undetected for five months. The UK’s official ...

Companies House, the UK’s business registrar, has successfully rebooted its online WebFiling service after it emerged that a previously unknown cyber security issue exposed various data on companies ...

On Friday 13 March, Companies House discovered a security issue within its WebFiling service. This vulnerability allowed logged-in users to potentially access and modify certain details of another ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Companies House said a glitch on its online filing service allowing people to view and edit data for other businesses and their ...

The UK’s official corporate register said it had reopened the WebFiling service on Monday morning, having suspended it on Friday after being alerted to the bug. There are more than five million ...

A bug in its WebFiling service allowed users to access other companies’ details by pressing the back key on their web browser. Companies House said a glitch on its online filing service allowing ...

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