Cybersecurity
Guardian Tells Workers Their Data Was Compromised in Ransomware Hack
- Identity thieves could leverage stolen information, paper says
- Employees have worked from home since December intrusion
Offices of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in London.
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The Guardian Media Group has told UK staff their personal data has been accessed in what the news publisher said it believes was a ransomware incident, according to an email to employees seen by Bloomberg.
It’s “clear that we experienced a highly sophisticated cyber attack involving unauthorized third-party access to parts of our network, which appears to have been triggered by a phishing attack,” said Chief Executive Officer Anna Bateson and Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner in the message. “The attack affected many of our key systems, our IT network and some of our data.”