Security News > 2020 > August > They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news – we've been hacked'

The trade union's servers were breached at the end of July, knocking out its website on the 30th as BDA personnel scratched their heads.

Trade news site Dentistry Online reported BDA chief exec Martin Woodrow as saying: "As we attempted to restore services, it became clear hackers had accessed our systems."

In a statement posted to its website on 30 July, the BDA's IT team said: "We've been investigating why our site has been down and it's bad news; we've been hacked."

Dentistry Online reported that names, contact details, transaction histories with the BDA, direct debit details including account numbers and sort codes, logs of correspondence and notes of cases lodged with the BDA may have been accessed.

As well as its trade union functions, the BDA also offers its members indemnity insurance, meaning it holds some data about disputes over dental negligence.

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