Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack. In what was originally being called a serious IT outage at the end of last week, the union confirmed to The Register today …

[abend0c4]

Organizations don't think about keeping backups away from their network or even off-site

Interesting use of the word "backup".

[Dev_Fit]

Re: Organizations don't think about keeping backups away from their network or even off-site

Oh the horror... in a techie's union of all things.

[tiggity]

Update free zone

Asked about the claims made by the source, Webb had questioned where they got the information, saying they were "in dreamland" and that they "shouldn't be trusted."

We shall see (the paranoid approach is to assume the attackers have nabbed everything until proven otherwise), though rampant speculation is highly likely, especially when the CWU special web page for the data branch is totally uninformative (as of 5 PM, Mon 25th March 2024) - https://www.cwu.org/cwu-it-issues/

[Death_Ninja]

Change of name?

"Can't Communicate Workers Union"? - CCWU?

You'd have thought one of their comrades could have sorted out their security maybe?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Change of name?

nCWU ?

non-Communicative Workers Union?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too busy counting the teabags to make sure Manglement aren't grinding the working man's face into the dirt to implement security?

[Tron]

Irony.

And lots of it.

[s. pam]

Shame it wasn't the RMT

Any little excuse to stop the trains and tube and they're in like flint. Perversely it'd have been fitting justice to have their uniion shutdown!

[Dave@Home]

Re: Shame it wasn't the RMT

In like Flynn

Union has one 'i'

poor attempt at trolling, do better

[two00lbwaster]

Very little transparency is probably a sign that the source is at least in some way correct.

Disparaging them and saying that they're not to be trusted sounds like a pretty desperate statement of someone under a lot of stress hoping to recover and brush it under the rug. The kind of behaviour that GDPR was hoping to prevent.

[0laf]

Bingo

Does everyone have their incident bingo cards ready?

Sophisticated attack

Security our priority

Our members data is our highest concern

Our network was not breached our data was protected at all times

There is no evidence our network was breached

Your data is for sale on the dark web