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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

Capita cyber-attack: USS pension fund members’ details may have been stolen

Academic staff
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) invests almost £90bn on behalf of academics. Photograph: Anna Stowe/Alamy

Almost half a million members of the giant USS lecturers’ pension fund may have had their personal details stolen during the recent cyber-attack on the outsourcing firm Capita.

The company, which also runs services for the NHS and military, has previously said that the attack on its servers in March may have resulted in a “limited” amount of data being compromised.

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