Interserve hit with £4.4m fine after cyber attack

Interserve Group Ltd has been fined £4.4m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to keep personal information of its staff secure.
The fine follows a breach of data protection law in May 2020 when the company failed to put appropriate security measures in place to prevent the cyber attack, which enabled hackers to access the personal data of up to 113,000 employees through a phishing email.
The compromised data included personal information such as contact de