Interserve fined £4.4m after losing staff data to hackers

By Daniel Gayne2022-10-24T06:00:00

Information Commissioner finds firm’s security measures lacking

The Information Commissioner (ICO) has slapped Interserve with a £4.4m fine weak security measures allowed hackers to steal the personal data of up to 113,000 current and former employees.

Cybercriminals struck in May 2020, using a phishing email to gain access to employee information at the Berkshire firm, which is a Ministry of Defence contractor and had recently been involved in the construction of the NHS Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham.

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