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Daa staff data compromised in cyber attack

Nearly 2,000 employees have been affected by the breach, according to reports

Daa says that the compromised data is related to employee’s pay and benefits

Information belonging to 2,000 Daa employees was recently compromised following a cyber attack on a third-party software used by the company Aon, which provides third-party services to the airport operator.

The Daa - which operates Dublin and Cork airports - is one of a number of Aon clients whose data was impacted.

The data was breached through an attack on the file transfer software tool MoveIt, according to a report in the Sunday Times, with ...