Zack WhittakerUK defense minister Grant Shapps confirms cyberattack and data breach involving a payments system for the UK Armed Forces — names, bank account information, and some addresses of military personnel.
"This is an external system... operated by a contractor," says Shapps.
I think a big question here is why U.K. military personnel data was being handled by a third-party contractor? Government systems might not be much stronger, but another consequence of privatization?
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