PMI reports itself to ICO after hacker attack leads to data breach

Jonathan Stapleton
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The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office following a cyber-attack which resulted in hackers gaining access to the names and email addresses of around 1,700 people.

The brute-force attack - which took place earlier this month - resulted in a breach of data which saw the hacker gain access to names and email addresses contained within an email inbox of one of t...

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