TPR suffers security breach as computer infected with ransomware

James Phillips
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has admitted it was subject to a partially successful ransomware attack during the past three financial years but had blocked over 40,000 other attempts.

In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, the watchdog said attempts to breach its systems were unsuccessful on all accounts bar one, which saw one computer encrypted followed by a dem...

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