Security News > 2023 > May > Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs

Britain's leaky outsourcing behemoth Capita is warning investors that the clean-up bill for its recent digital break-in will cost up to £20 million.

At the end of March, the business was blindsided when criminals broke into its tech infrastructure and stayed inside for more than a week before Capita realized it was the victim of a "Cyber incident."

Capita said in April that 4 percent of its servers were accessed by the intruder/s and there was evidence some data was stolen.

In today's update, it now believes that "Some data was exfiltrated from less than 0.1 percent of its server estate. Capita has taken extensive steps to recover and secure the customer, supplier and colleagues data contained within the impacted server estate, and to remediate any issues arising from the incident."

James Preece, analyst at Megabyte, said the situation at Capita developed from an i"Nitial cyber breach that restricted internal access to a few Office applications into a full-on customer and supplier data exfiltration clanger."

Security researcher Kevin Beaumont has repeatedly pulled Capita across hot coals for what he sees as a lack of transparency in the way it has dealt with the breach.

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