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2020 NOW:Pensions — 30k UK pension records

2020 30.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Pension records, personal data

Technical writeup

NOW:Pensions, a UK workplace pension provider, suffered a breach in 2020 affecting 30,000 records. The breach was caused by a rogue contractor who accessed and potentially exfiltrated pension data. NOW:Pensions manages pensions for millions of UK workers.

Root cause

Rogue contractor; insider threat

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