Cybersecurity
Hackers Breached UK Pension Protection Fund, Stole Employee Data
- Notorious gang Cl0p claims responsibility for breach
- Intruders exploited a third-party service used by other firms
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Hackers obtained data on some employees of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund after exploiting a third-party data transfer service, according to a fund spokesperson.
The Pension Protection Fund manages £39 billion of assets for its 295,000 members, according to its website. The fund protects people with a defined benefit pension when an employer becomes insolvent. By exploiting the Go Anywhere transfer service, intruders compromised some employee data, Jenny Peters, a spokesperson for the fund, said in a statement.