Another week and yet another cyber-attack on a major UK company. The Guardian broke the news yesterday highlighting that Go-Ahead are facing problems with their back office systems, including bus services and payroll software.
Fortunately it is only affecting the bus services they run and not their rail business.
There are a couple of important things to note here. Firstly, the UK and other countries are seeing more threats to government organisations, transport and infrastructure companies. Infrastructure, by it’s nature, is vital to the smooth running of a countries’ daily life and an interruption to this can cause serious problems.
One of the most infamous cyber attacks to infrastructure took place last year when hackers breached the Colonial Pipeline using a compromised password.
The key aspect of this case was that investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak. This scenario is a perfect demonstration of how SOS Intelligence could have helped, alerting the company to this in time and possibly preventing what happened.
In the UK, companies have faced sizeable fines when they have been the subject of a breach and lost customer data.
British Airways was told in July 2019 that it faced a fine of £183m after hackers stole the personal information of half a million customers. Eventually they paid £20M, still a considerable amount.
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