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Written question asked by Lord Mendelsohn (Labour) on Thursday, 19 April 2018, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 3 May 2018. It was answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative) on Tuesday, 1 May 2018 on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.


Fin7

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any UK companies or customers have been affected by data breaches or malware attacks linked to hacking group Fin7.

Answer

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been alerted to incidents affecting companies, across a range of sectors in the UK, and which are judged to be a result of malicious cyber activity by the ‘Fin7’ group. Cyber Incident Response companies have since engaged with these firms. To date, government does not hold any information to confirm any significant data loss from these companies as a result of these incidents.

The NCSC’s weekly threat report, published on the NCSC website, highlighted activity by Fin7 in February and May 2017.



Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL7118
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Hacking Fin7
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk