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a screenshot from the Financial Times piece, which reads in full: Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/b21c9eba-54c4-46c6-bd99-e9554c4660d9 SSCL holds the payroll details of most of the British armed forces and 550,000 public servants in total through its other government contracts, including with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Metropolitan Police. It was set up in 2013 as a joint venture between the cabinet office and Paris-based Sopra Steria, a digital services company, as part of a wider drive by the government to reform the civil service and save taxpayer money by centralising functions. It claims to have delivered £750mn in savings to the public sector over the past decade. The cabinet office sold its 25 per cent stake in SSCL to Sopra Steria last year. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. SSCL provides business services to 22 government departments and agencies and processes more than £363bn in payments every year, according to its website.

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a screenshot from the Financial Times piece, which reads in full: Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/b21c9eba-54c4-46c6-bd99-e9554c4660d9 SSCL holds the payroll details of most of the British armed forces and 550,000 public servants in total through its other government contracts, including with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Metropolitan Police. It was set up in 2013 as a joint venture between the cabinet office and Paris-based Sopra Steria, a digital services company, as part of a wider drive by the government to reform the civil service and save taxpayer money by centralising functions. It claims to have delivered £750mn in savings to the public sector over the past decade. The cabinet office sold its 25 per cent stake in SSCL to Sopra Steria last year. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. SSCL provides business services to 22 government departments and agencies and processes more than £363bn in payments every year, according to its website.
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Zack Whittaker (zackwhittaker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 20:53:15 JST Zack Whittaker
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The FT is reporting that the hacked contractor, SSCL, holds the payroll details of most of the British armed forces and 550,000 public servants, including central government.
The key line: "It was set up in 2013 [under a Conservative government] as a joint venture between the cabinet office and Paris-based Sopra Steria, a digital services company, as part of a wider drive by the government to reform the civil service and save taxpayer money by centralising functions."
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