The Welsh force said on 25 September that it identified the incident earlier in the month, that it disrupted some non-emergency systems and that employee information may have been affected. It has found no evidence that information belonging to members of the public was accessed, and is still investigating whether information involving employees was read or compromised. Dyfed-Powys covers southwest Wales with more than 2,000 officers and staff; Tarian, the regional organised crime unit for southern Wales, is leading the investigation with cyber security specialists. The force did not describe the intrusion method, the nature of any staff data involved, or a timeline beyond the month, and no group had claimed responsibility at publication. The disclosure follows the pattern of local and regional police incidents this year, where operational systems are restored quickly but the data-exposure question takes weeks to close.

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