The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees of one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into a database and stole their personal details.
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Names, National Insurance numbers, dates of birth, gender and home addresses were included in data exposed via a cloud database used by the BBC Pension Scheme's admin team, El Reg was told.
No financial information or credentials were compromised, and the incident did not affect the integrity of the scheme itself, its website or the portal used by scheme members to manage their investments.
The incident was discovered on May 21 by the BBC's infosec team, which brought in outside experts to help dig into the case. The results of the investigation, which is still ongoing, indicate that the stolen data has not been misused at this time and the database is now locked.
