Monday, May 13, 2024

Payroll Data Breach of Ministry of Defence of UK



If your systems rely on digital platforms (which is inevitable today) then you cannot be an exception of cyber attacks. If you did not take necessary cybersecurity countermeasures then your end is not difficult to guess.

The cyber victim of this week was the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom.


UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) where hackers have accessed personal information of former armed forces personnel, including names, financial data, and in some cases home addresses.


The affected systems have been pulled offline but there is no indication as to how long the attackers had access to the data.


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"UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.


There is no evidence to suggest that the criminals who broke into the systems actually removed any data, but they did access personal information including names, financial data, and in some cases home addresses."


"The UK isn't formally attributing the activity to any specific individual or group, but sources speaking to Sky, which broke the news, suggested China was behind it."

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