A Nottinghamshire based company is amongst several in the UK that have been hit by a data breach. Based in Beeston, Boots is one of the organisations targeted in a major hack on the the payroll platform Zellis, alongside British Airways and the BBC.
Zellis confirmed on Monday, June 5, that it had been hit by a cyber attack and eight of its clients were affected, but it has not named which ones. Zellis provides payroll, HR services and background checks for some of the UK's largest companies, including Tesco, BP, Wilko, Harrods and Credit Suisse.
According to PA Media, the cyber attack has been linked to the Russian cyber hacking group 'Clop' and occurred after the transfer tool MOVEit, which had a "critical software vulnerability", was used by Zellis to move files. Boots has confirmed it was one of the companies affected, and said that the data breached in the attack involved some of its 50,000 staff members' personal details reports The Daily Mirror.
