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> A Companies House spokesperson said: “A company was registered using characters that could have presented a security risk to a small number of our customers, if published on unprotected external websites. We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk and have put measures in place to prevent a similar occurrence. We are confident that Companies House services remain secure.”

No, if you were that easy to inject, your site was not secure to begin with.



The risk was to insecure customers, companies house services weren't vulnerable to this to begin with.




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