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MoD payroll system breach exposes armed forces staff
A contractor-run payroll system for the Ministry of Defence was breached, exposing names and bank details of around 270,000 service personnel and veterans.
- Organisation
- UK Ministry of Defence (payroll)
- Disclosed
- 7 May 2024
- Affected
- 270,000
- Data
- Names, bank details, some addresses
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- UK
- Source
- CSO Online ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “MoD payroll system breach exposes armed forces staff”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 7 May 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-05-07-uk-ministry-of-defence-payroll-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CSO Online, https://www.csoonline.com/article/2099498.
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