Exclusively the Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of workers in sectors across the UK economy including technology and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyber attack.
CWU Tech Trade Union confirms cyber attack behind email breach
In what was initially described as a serious IT outage late last week, the union confirmed to The Register today that the incident is now being treated as an attack, the full extent of which is still being assessed.
The CWU told us on March 22 that its email services were down and that it has engaged third-party cyber security experts who have been on site since 0900 UTC on March 21. Some systems have also been taken down as a precaution.
When asked if the union, one of Britain's largest, had fallen victim to a cyber attack, or if the situation was caused by ransomware, communications director Chris Webb said: "We don't know."
