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We hear Privacy International and a few other campaign groups set up camp outside Capita's AGM in London yesterday protesting Capita's involvement as an outsourcer in a UK government GPS tracking contract. Privacy International has previously complained that the UK Home Office and the MoJ continue to "Throw money at procurement of GPS tags to monitor migrants... despite the fact only 1 percent of migrants abscond from immigration bail," citing a statistic it obtained via a Freedom of Information request [PDF].
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 is telling pension customers that some data contained within its systems was potentially accessed when criminals broke into the outsourcing giant's tech infrastructure earlier this year. As part of the ongoing investigation, Capita said in April around 4 percent of its servers were accessed by the intruder and some customers, colleagues and suppliers' data was lifted.
London-based professional outsourcing giant Capita has published an update on the cyber-incident that impacted it at the start of the month, now admitting that hackers exfiltrated data from its systems.On March 31, 2023, Capita disclosed an IT issue that impacted its services.
Business process outsourcing and tech services player Capita says there is proof that some customer data was scooped up by cyber baddies that broke into its systems late last month. "As a result of the interruption, the incident was significantly restricted, potentially affecting around 4 percent of Capita's server estate. There is currently some evidence of limited data exfiltration from the small proportion of affected server estate which might include customer, supplier or colleague data."
Black Basta, the extortionists who claimed they were the ones who lately broke into Capita, have reportedly put up for sale sensitive details, including bank account information, addresses, and passport photos, stolen from the IT outsourcing giant. "We continue to work closely with specialist advisers and forensic experts in investigating the incident," a Capita spokesperson told The Register.