Attackers may have snatched personal information despite preventative security measures being in place.
A care organisation has said that data was stolen in a recent cyber-attack.
According to the Doncaster Free Press, Hesley Group was targeted last September but details of the incident have only just come to light after bosses confirmed that attackers may have seized staff names and addresses, staff pictures, phone numbers, email addresses, bank details, salary details and medical information.
The company said it had preventative security measures in place at the time but, cyber-criminals were able to access certain parts of its systems.
A spokesperson for the Hesley Group said: “Hesley Group was the subject of a cyber incident last year. "The breach thankfully had no impact on our ability to look after the people we support, but the criminals accessed some folders on our system and extracted a small amount of data.”
Hesley Group also confirmed that since September 2024, there has been no evidence of any of the information that was potentially accessed being misused, published or made available to anyone.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
