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Personal information of current and former BBC employees has been exposed in a data breach that affected the broadcaster's in-house pension scheme."On the 21 May, the BBC's information security team alerted us to a data security incident, in which some files containing personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members records were copied from a cloud-based data storage service used by our administration team," the BBC Pension and Benefits Centre said.
The BBC has disclosed a data security incident that occurred on May 21, involving unauthorized access to files hosted on a cloud-based service, compromising the personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members. As per the reports, the incident impacted roughly 25,000 people, including current and former employees of Britain's national public service broadcaster.
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Content farm operates 60+ 'news' websites. BleepingComputer has identified a network of more than five dozen "News" websites that impersonate leading media outlets like the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Crunchbase, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Metro, The Mirror, The Telegraph, Reuters, Washington Times, and Washington Post.
Content farm operates 60+ 'news' websites. BleepingComputer has identified a network of more than five dozen "News" websites that impersonate leading media outlets like the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Crunchbase, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Metro, The Mirror, The Telegraph, Reuters, Washington Times, and Washington Post.
British Airways, BBC and Boots have all been served an ultimatum after they were hit with a supply-chain attack by the ransomware group Clop. In February 2023, Clop claimed responsibility for a supply-chain attack that affected more than 130 organizations, including data belonging to CHS Healthcare patients.
The fallout of the MOVEit Transfer hack via CVE-2023-34362 by the Cl0p gang is expanding, as several UK-based companies have now confirmed that some of their data has been stolen. Caitlin Condon, Senior Manager of Security Research at Rapid7, told Help Net Security that the company has responded to MOVEit Transfer alerts across a wide range of organizations, from small businesses to enterprises with tens of thousands of assets.
British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app. Instead, payroll services provider Zellis on Monday admitted its MOVEit installation had been exploited, and as a result "a small number of our customers" - including the aforementioned British trio - had their information stolen.
The world's oldest national broadcaster, the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation, has told staff they shouldn't keep the TikTok app on a BBC corporate device unless there is a "Justified business reason." The national broadcaster told staffers in the in-house mag that while they could do what they liked with their personal phones "Based on your individual circumstances and data considerations," if the device is a BBC corporate device "And you do not need TikTok for business reasons," they must delete TikTok promptly.
The BBC were the target of nearly 50 million malicious email attacks between 1st October 2021 and the end of January 2022. This means the BBC is facing an average of 383,278 email threats a day, which is a 35 per cent increase from the daily figure of 283,597 email attacks blocked per day observed by Parliament Street in Summer 2020.