GoAnywhere Hack Targets UK Pension Protection Fund

Among the largest asset managers in the United Kingdom, the U.K. Pension Protection Fund, which manages £39 billion in assets, confirmed that the hack against GoAnywhere, the popular file-transferring service, had impacted it. 

There have been many reports in recent days that many different organizations have confirmed their data has been accessed by hackers as a result of this incident. One of these organizations is the City of Toronto, a British multinational company, as well as the University of Toronto. 

The fund, which manages pension assets for nearly 300,000 clients, announced its decision to inform employees affected by the change. To help those impacted by the breach, it offers support, monitoring, and emergency services.   

PPF said that although Fortra, the company behind GoAnywhere, initially assured them that there had not been any impact on data as a result of the February breach, this was not the case. It was also revealed that some data was potentially compromised during a subsequent investigation.   

In response to this, the pension fund stopped using the firm’s services immediately, due to this incident. 

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