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Hundreds of pension funds person been asked to cheque whether information was stolen by cybercriminals during a large hack of the UK's largest outsourcer.
The Pensions Regulator has asked schemes that usage Capita to measure whether pensioners' idiosyncratic information is astatine risk.
Following the hack, accusation held connected behalf of immoderate customers began to circulate online.
They included passport images, location addresses and adjacent floorplans of homes.
The pensions watchdog said connected Sunday that it had written to the hundreds of pension funds that employment Capita to administer their outgo systems, urging them to "determine whether determination is simply a hazard to their scheme's data".
A spokesperson for the Pensions Regulator added: "We instrumentality IT information and the hazard of cyber attacks highly seriously." Capita said that lone a tiny fig of its machine servers were compromised.
In a statement, it said that it has besides been successful regular interaction with authorities since the hack and that it volition update them connected the probe arsenic it progresses.
The institution provides IT services among its businesses, which besides see moving the London congestion charging zone, collecting the BBC licence interest and overseeing grooming for the Royal Navy.
It is besides a starring pension advisor successful the UK, providing consulting services to 150 pension schemes.
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