"To help colleagues monitor personal information, we have offered 12 months of free identity monitoring services, which are provided by Experian," a BBC representative said. The BBC is giving its staff free access to the credit score company Experian so that workers can keep an eye on what's happening with their personal data. PA DeadlineĪccording to the BBC, Clop set a deadline of June 14, and posted on the dark web: “This is announcement to educate companies who use Progress MOVEit product that chance is that we download a lot of your data as part of exceptional exploit.” The BBC is one of the organisations a cybercrime gang has told to email them before June 14 or stolen data will be published. The hack prompted security alerts at the US Department of Homeland Security, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Microsoft and Mandiant, a subsidiary of Alphabet’s Google Cloud.
It is believed that hackers were then able to access the databases of hundreds of companies.Ĭlop did not name specific company targets, but several organisations have said their data could be at risk, including the Irish airline, Aer Lingus, the Nova Scotia government and the University of Rochester. The ultimatum follows a cyber attack in which the gang broke into MOVEit, a piece of popular business software.
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