Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-06-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ofcom
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: cl0p
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Britain's communications regulator Ofcom announces that confidential information which it held on companies it regulates was downloaded by hackers exploiting the CVE-2023-34362 vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool.