Months after the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) was evaluated to have the worst IT security in Whitehall, data on armed forces personnel has been accessed in a cyber attack.
While the data accessed by the threat actor was being handled by a third party contractor, earlier this year the MoD was evaluated to have 11 red-rated systems that were either highly exposed to cyber attacks and data breaches, or were evaluated as being unsuitable for use and inefficient.
