“In its email to those affected, the pension scheme did not explain how the breach had happened, beyond saying that private records had been “copied from an online data storage service”.”
Names, dates of birth, home addresses and national insurance numbers for 25,000 BBC pension members were copied out of a cloud storage service. The scheme takes this “extremely seriously” and won’t say how it happened. Its advice to victims is to “be vigilant.” Last June the BBC got caught in a mass hack, and a year later its pension records still sat in an online store.