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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

RNLI warns supporters their personal information may have been hacked

The RNLI Swanage Shannon class lifeboat motors in open water
A company the RNLI uses for customer relations was targeted, the charity revealed. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

Supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been warned that their personal information may have been stolen by hackers amid targeting of the charity by far-right agitators.

In a letter accompanying the autumn copy of its Lifeboat magazine, the charity warned members that their “name, contact details and records of interactions with the RNLI” could have been breached in the raid on a company it uses for customer relationship management.

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