Tens of thousands of members of the Marks and Spencer and Diageo pension schemes have been warned their personal data was likely to have been stolen by hackers during a cyber attack at Capita, the outsourcer.
The M&S and Diageo pension funds were among hundreds of private-sector retirement schemes which used Capita to support their pension administration services. Capita detected a cyber incident in March and confirmed in April that it was the victim of a hack which affected some customers.
On Thursday, the M&S pension scheme said the cyber security breach at Capita in March may have affected the security of personal data for a “large proportion” of scheme members including the “majority” of pensioners who had worked at the retailer.