Employee information including names, addresses and national insurance numbers were compromised.
As a result of a large-scale cyber attack aimed at the pension system of the British broadcaster BBC, the personal data of more than 25 thousand former and current employees was stolen. The Telgraph writes about it.
Information including names, addresses and national insurance numbers was compromised after files containing personal data were stolen from a cloud storage service earlier this month.
“Last week the BBC notified its pension fund, and on Wednesday members of the pension scheme received a warning by email,” the publication said.
According to the publication, it is not known who is responsible for the evil. But insiders said it was not a ransomware attack, adding that there was no evidence the data appeared anywhere on the internet.
A spokesman for the £695m pension scheme, which is one of the UK’s biggest with more than 50,000 members, said no bank details, email addresses, usernames or passwords had been compromised.
The publication writes that while participants were not asked to take any specific steps, they were encouraged to remain “vigilant for any activity that seems unusual.”
The attack reportedly comes less than a year after the BBC was hit by cyber attacks carried out by the Russian hacker group Clop.
British Airways and Boots were also previously hit by a hack targeting payroll software Zellis and affecting up to 100,000 UK workers. Last year, The Guardian was also hit by a separate ransomware attack that crippled its computer systems.
Earlier it was reported that hackers destroyed a database with personal data of military personnel and employees of the British Ministry of Defense.
We remind you that Estonian government agencies experienced the largest DDoS attack in the entire history of the country. However, due to the swift action, the impact of the attack on the functioning of the institutions was negligible.
Source: korrespondent
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