Cyber criminals accessed staff data in ransomware attack: The Guardian

British newspaper The Guardian has confirmed that hackers accessed some of its employees’ data in the ransomware attack in December last year.

An internal email, seen by The Record, said that it is “now clear that we experienced a highly sophisticated cyber attack involving unauthorised third-party access to parts of our network, which appears to have been triggered by a phishing attack.”

The cyber attack was described as affecting many of the company’s key systems, the IT network and “some” of its data.

The Guardian said it was a criminal ransomware attack.

“We have seen no evidence that any data has been exposed online thus far and we continue to monitor this very closely,” said the news organisation.