Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years

The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 633,887 people. According to the ICO, the South Staffordshire breach began in September 2020 with a phishing email that tricked an employee into opening an attachment, allowing attackers to install malicious software inside the company’s network. The intrusion remained undetected for 20 months. “The breach … More →

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