"British Airways, Boots Staff Data Compromised by Payroll Cyber Hack"

British Airways and retailer Boots recently discovered that their staff was amongst those hit by a cyberattack on Zellis, a payroll provider used by hundreds of companies in Britain.  British Airways, owned by IAG, said it had notified affected employees and was providing them with support.  The company stated that they had been informed that they are one of the companies impacted by Zellis' cybersecurity incident, which occurred via one of their third-party suppliers called MOVEit.  Part of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, Boots said the attack had included some of its employees' personal details.  Boots employs over 50,000 people in Britain, while British Airways has about 30,000 staff.  U.S. security researchers warned last Thursday that hackers had stolen data from the systems of a number of users of file transfer tool MOVEit Transferone one day after the software maker disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered.  The compromised data the researchers saw included names, addresses, and national insurance numbers.  

U.S. News reports: "British Airways, Boots Staff Data Compromised by Payroll Cyber Hack"