Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption

Telematics tech biz Microlise says an attack that hit its network likely did not expose customer data, although staff aren't so lucky. "Some limited employee data" was compromised in the incident, Microlise told the London Stock Exhchange today, without going into any great detail about the nature of the data or how many staff …

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Stock response

We've definitely been had, we've no idea how bad it is.

[ihardiman]

As an interested party, we were told it was a ddos attack.

clearly wasn't just ddos then....

[IGotOut]

Ddos often happen to mask the real attack.

So it could be both.

[IGotOut]

A criminal offence?

Unless a company can prove the following lines by company spend, the CEO and CFO get six months in prison.

"The safety and security of customer data and business operations is always our top priority....."

[Anonymous Coward]

As someone who works for one of the affected companies... it's a complete clusterfudge! Not only is tracking offline, but job management, despatch, routing, communications, etc. I can understand why certain businesses might want to issue a "No comment" when their backup systems are hand written paperwork, excel spreadsheets, personal mobile phones and hoping that vehicles are where they they're supposed to be...

AC due to "Social media policies "