UK National Lottery Community Fund Suffered a Catastrophic Data Breach

guest · Jul 24, 2021

UK National Lottery Community Fund Suffered a Catastrophic Data Breach
July 24, 2021
https://www.technadu.com/uk-nationa...und-suffered-catastrophic-data-breach/291457/

The UK National Lottery Community Fund has suffered a data breach that exposed data of grant holders and applicants.

The compromised details include names, email addresses, phone numbers, and limited bank account data.

There are no clarifications around what exactly has happened, but the ICO has been informed about the event.

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The UK National Lottery Community Fund is sending notices of a data breach to affected individuals like grant holders and applicants. The organization operates a fund distribution program titled “Building Better Opportunities,” which aims to provide financial support to various good causes. In the past couple of years, it has awarded £588 million ($807 million) to 8,189 community projects. Unfortunately, the security breach has compromised all details relevant to this program, with the exposed data ranging between September 2013 and December 2019.

What hasn’t been exposed is bank account PINs, passwords, and card details, since these aren’t collected and/or stored by the UK National Lottery Community Fund.
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For now, no details about what exactly has happened have been made public, so it is unknown if this is a ransomware incident, a network breach, or something else. A spokesperson from the organization has stated that at the moment, the priority is to help the customers understand whether or not they have been affected, and for those who have, help them protect against the threats.
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Important notice of a data breach

The data includes contact details (name, address, email and land and mobile numbers), date of birth, bank details (name of bank account, sort code and account number) and the applicant organisation’s address and website.

We are looking into the matter fully to understand what has happened, but we need to make any UK Portfolio, England funding or Building Better Opportunities customers who supplied this type of information to us during this date range aware that their data could be at risk.
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