of data leaks at other forces, including one at the police service of northern ireland, which saw the details of all staff accidentally published. those were human error. this seems to be a targeted attack on a third party it company thought to be contracted by the met to make warrant cards. it s similar to the situation british airways, boots, and the bbc found themselves in when their payroll provider was hacked. in the event of the hack, clearly there s been weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the system, whoever is managing and maintaining it, if we are indeed going off the outsourcing. so it s all good and well protecting the front end, but it s got to be the back end as well. the ones who are behind the scenes, if you like, in this instance an it company. the met police say the incident has been reported to the national crime agency and the information commissioner. there are many unanswered questions about this latest attack. who was behind it?
massive cyber heist. data stolen from underneath companies s notice, and now on a hike s website, a warning in broken english. the gang called clop, boasts. an ultimatum was also issued to the dozens, maybe even hundreds of organisations affected. get in touch with us to discuss a ransom payment or we will publish your data online. the bbc, koh boots, aer lingus and british airways arejust bbc, koh boots, aer lingus and british airways are just some of the organisations we know about. the scale of this mass hack has really shocked the cyber world. it all started with a relatively obscure but popular piece of corporate software called moveit. the clop hackers managed to find a unique way into the system and that gave them access to all the companies that use moveit, for example, the uk payroll provider zellis.
joe tidy has the latest. it has been described as a massive cyber heist. data stolen from underneath companies noses. and now, on a hackers website, a warning in broken english. the gang, called clop, boast, chances that we download a lot of your data as part of exceptional exploit. as well as the boast, an ultimatum was issued to the dozens, maybe even hundreds of organisations affected. get in touch with us to discuss a ransom payment or we will publish your data online. the bbc, boots, aer lingus and british airways are just some of the organisations we know about. the scale of this mass hack has really shocked the cyber world. it all started with a relatively obscure but popular piece of corporate software called moveit. the clop hackers managed to find a unique way into the system and that gave them access to all the companies that use moveit, for example, the uk payroll provider zellis. that allowed them to download some of the data of their customers, including the bbc and
as well as the boast, an ultimatum was issued to the dozens, maybe even hundreds of organisations affected. get in touch with us to discuss a ransom payment or we will publish your data online. the bbc, boots, aer lingus and british airways are just some of the organisations we know about. the scale of this mass hack has really shocked the cyber world. it all started with a relatively obscure but popular piece of corporate software called moveit. the clop hackers managed to find a unique way into the system and that gave them access to all the companies that use moveit, for example, the uk payroll provider zellis. that allowed them to download some of the data of their customers, including the bbc and british airways. they are often dubbed supply chain attacks and what that essentially means, instead of targeting an organisation directly, they target a piece of software and