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Qilin claims 550GB from The Big Issue
The UK street paper confirmed a cyber attack after Qilin claimed to have stolen 550GB of commercial and staff data.
- Organisation
- The Big Issue
- Disclosed
- 27 March 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Staff and commercial data
- Attacker
- Qilin
- Severity
- minor
- Region
- UK
- Source
- The Record ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Qilin claims 550GB from The Big Issue”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 27 Mar 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-03-27-the-big-issue-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Record, https://therecord.media/ransomware-gang-attacks-big-issue-street-paper.
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