Pension watchdog probes Capita data hack

The Pensions Regulator has asked hundreds of pension funds to investigate whether the personal details of millions of people have fallen into the hands of foreign cybercriminals following a hack at Capita, the UK’s largest outsourcer.

The watchdog has written to trustees responsible for pension funds that use Capita to administer their schemes after the company’s IT systems were compromised by a Russian hacking group, which leaked the data of some Capita clients.

Last month, a group called Black Basta hacked into Capita’s systems. Despite initially claiming that there had been no data breach, The Sunday Times revealed that passport pictures, bank account details and phone numbers of purported Capita clients had been uploaded onto the dark web.

Capita’s systems administer the pensions of about