The BBC has disclosed a data breach impacting over 25,000 current and former employees, but the incident did not involve ransomware.
May 31 2024 By Eduard Kovacs
The BBC is informing current and former employees about a data breach discovered by its information security team.
The UK media giant said it detected a “data security incident” involving files that stored information on BBC Pension Scheme members.
The files, copied by an unidentified entity from a cloud storage service, included information such as names, National Insurance numbers, home addresses, and dates of birth.
The BBC said information such as phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, passwords, bank accounts or other financial information have not been exposed. The Pension Scheme website and the member portal were not impacted.