(Reuters) -British outsourcing company Capita has confirmed to pension clients that some data it processed was likely to have been hacked during a recent cyber incident, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
The outsourcing company, which was affected by a cyber incident in March, last month said that there was no evidence of any data being compromised after its internal Microsoft Office 365 applications were affected.
A large team of staff at Capita had searched the affected servers and identified that some pensions data that Capita processes on behalf of its clients “is likely to have been exfiltrated”, the newspaper reported, citing correspondence sent to trustees.
Among its clients, the company provides the UK government on a range of services including managing tax and I.T.
services for local councils.
The report added that there was “no evidence” that Capita pensions data was available on the dark web and that it had a third-party specialist checking on a regular basis.
The investigations are expected to be finalised by the end of next week or shortly thereafter, the report said.
Capita did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru, editing by Deepa Babington)
