"UK Pension Funds Warned to Check on Clients' Data After Capita Breach"

Hundreds of pension funds in the UK have been instructed to check whether their clients' data was stolen due to the Capita breach in March. Capita, the country's largest outsourcing firm, has contracts to manage the payment systems for pension funds used by more than 4 million people in the UK. Following the publication of sensitive data referencing home addresses and passport photos by the Black Basta ransomware gang, the company confirmed that it was investigating the release of the data allegedly stolen by the ransomware group. The Pensions Regulator has written to hundreds of pension funds, requesting that trustees contact Capita to find out if their data has been compromised. Capita has verified that there are currently some signs of limited data exfiltration from a small proportion of the impacted server estate, which could include customer, supplier, or colleague data. This article continues to discuss the Capita breach and UK pension funds being told to check on whether their clients' data had been stolen because of the breach. 

The Record reports "UK Pension Funds Warned to Check on Clients' Data After Capita Breach"