Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2024
The BBC disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members. The BBC disclosed a data breach that occurred on May 21. Threat actors gained access to files on a cloud-based service belonging to the British public service broadcaster. “The BBC’s information security team has alerted us to a data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2023
The BBC and British Airways were both impacted by the data breach suffered by the payroll provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. “Zellis, a payroll company based in the UK, is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2016
The hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2016
A group of hackers named “New World Hackers” claims the DDoS attack on BBC’s website. They launched it to test their attack capabilities. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2013
The Russian hacker known as “HASH” and “Rev0lver” took control of a BBC server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals. A hacker compromised a server at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and started a Christmas Day campaign to sell the access to the machine to other cyber criminals. The evidences of […]
