CII hit by IT security breach; customer personal data impacted

The institute this morning (28 October) said it had concluded its investigations into the matter and has reported the incident to the Information Commissioner's Office. The CII confirmed a fifth of its customers' data was impacted including either their name or the name of their firm, address or email and address, telephone number and data of birth. No financial information was affected in the 30 September incident, which was discovered after a routine update patch was not initially applied correctly to its systems. All affected individuals have been contacted already, the institute c...