{"id":1142,"date":"2026-02-04T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:53:18","slug":"united-kingdom-investigations-into-possible-breaches-of-the-cyber-sanctions-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/04\/united-kingdom-investigations-into-possible-breaches-of-the-cyber-sanctions-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; investigations into possible breaches of the Cyber sanctions regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/uk-investing-first-suspected-breach-cyber-sanctions\">is being reported<\/a>, following a Freedom of Information request to HM Treasury, that the UK&#8217;s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has between 1 and 5 investigations ongoing in relation to possible breaches of the asset freezes imposed by the UK&#8217;s Cyber sanctions regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breaches are all said to relate to the financial services sector, but no further information was released so as to not prejudice ongoing or future investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report notes that an earlier Freedom of Information request was refused but an internal review lead to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported, following a Freedom of Information request to HM Treasury, that the UK&#8217;s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has between 1 and 5 investigations ongoing in relation to possible breaches of the asset freezes imposed by the UK&#8217;s Cyber sanctions regime. The breaches are all said to relate to the financial services &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/04\/united-kingdom-investigations-into-possible-breaches-of-the-cyber-sanctions-regime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; investigations into possible breaches of the Cyber sanctions regime&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,72],"tags":[108,20,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-cyber","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-united-kingdom"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}