Royal Mail investigates alleged data leak linked to third-party cyber-attack
An attacker claimed to have stolen 144GB of data from Royal Mail. Royal Mail investigated the alleged leak, which was linked to a cyber-attack on a third party. Operations were not affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Royal Mail
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 144GB of data, according to the attacker's claim
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack on a third party
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Timeline
- An attacker claimed to have stolen 144GB of Royal Mail data.
- It emerged that Royal Mail was investigating the data leak claim and that operations were not affected.
- The alleged leak was reported to be linked to a cyber-attack on a third party.
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