Cybersecurity

Cybercrime gang gives Aer Lingus, BBC and Boots ultimatum after mass hack

Group, which is believed to be based in Russia, has warned stolen data of more than 100,000 staff could be leaked

  • June 7, 2023
According to the BBC, whose employees were victims in the hack, the Russian-based Clop group made the threat in broken English on the dark web. Picture: Getty

A cybercrime gang that is thought to be based in Russia has warned more than 100,000 staff at major UK and Irish companies to email them before June 14 or stolen data will be published.

According to the BBC, whose employees were victims in the hack, the Clop group made the threat in broken English on the dark web.

Also targeted in the hack were the payrolls of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Boots, Nova Scotia Government and the University of Rochester after the gang broke into a piece of popular business software called MOVEit and used that access to get into the databases of potentially hundreds of other companies.