"BBC Suffers Data Breach Impacting Current, Former Employees"

The BBC has recently disclosed a cyberattack that occurred on May 21, involving unauthorized access to files hosted on a cloud-based service, compromising the personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members.  The company noted that the incident impacted roughly 25,000 people, including current and former employees of Britain's national public service broadcaster.  The compromised data includes full names, national insurance numbers, dates of birth, sex, and home addresses.  BBC noted that the incident did not expose people's telephone numbers, email addresses, bank details, financial information, and "myPension Online" usernames and passwords.  The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Pensions Regulator have also been notified.  The British broadcaster did not share much information about the type of security incident, and currently, no ransomware or data extortion groups have taken responsibility for the attack.

BleepingComputer reports: "BBC Suffers Data Breach Impacting Current, Former Employees"