The Guardian (who are themselves working out of a pub still due to a ransomware attack in December 2022) are reporting #Capita (a major IT supplier) have a "IT incident", staff have been told to not use VPN, and they are working with pen and paper since this morning. Thread follows. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/31/capita-it-systems-fail-cyber-attack-nhs-fears?CMP=share_btn_tw
Failed IT systems at Capita fuel fears of cyber-attack on crucial NHS provider

Staff unable to access computers and local authority phone lines knocked out as outsourcing giant investigates possible data breach

The Guardian

I had forgot how big Capita are. It's like 492304932 different business units. Shodan Safari is like looking into the sun.

It looks like some of the plc centrally use Okta for authentication.. I hope they enabled Number Verification.

The Times just filed a piece saying the #Capita outage is ongoing and hitting "every division" (only one source, not sure I buy it), with staff getting verbal 'round robin' updates. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2a6270b8-cfbd-11ed-9a00-73fd2b90e22e?shareToken=1df09835bc32a38e9b8ae2b0e7556097
Capita hit by IT breakdown amid fears of cyberattack

Capita, one of the UK’s biggest outsourcers, is investigating an incident with its IT systems which has prevented staff from logging in.Employees at the company, which handles important government contracts including for the NHS, have been denied access since before 7am.They have been told in round robin phone messages “not to attempt access via VPN or submit password recovery requests”.

The Times

The Times reporter is being verbally briefed as #Capita still don't have email (almost 10 hours in).

They're told: 'There appears to be no risk to personal data processed by the business. The outage seems to be is hitting Office365 programmes including Outlook, Excel and Teams rather than client systems...'

Financial Times have a new article up about #Capita, saying two people familiar with the matter say cyber incident cannot be ruled out.

Curiously all the media articles about it this evening talk about the IT incident in the past tense - but it is still ongoing, it hasn't been resolved.
https://www.ft.com/content/00f9591f-e07a-4339-ba3e-413818602515

Capita hit by IT failure that left staff unable to access services

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times
#Capita are still working to restore service.

Verbal update from #Capita - they’re still restoring internal service, “there is no evidence that any data has been compromised."

They won’t discuss what is happening.

#Capita has been in contact with people at the NCSC and NCA. Interesting an IT supplier would rather talk about a 3 day ongoing IT incident than mention the cyber word.
Latest statement from #Capita - 3 days in they have restored their Office 365 access, and are now trying to restore their customer’s services. “Working in collaboration with our specialist technical partners, we have restored Capita colleague access to Microsoft Office 365 and we are making good progress restoring remaining client services in a secure and controlled manner.”

The Times have a report up saying #Capita NHS services staff are working using WhatsApp and Google Drive, rather than approved Microsoft tooling.

Massively concerned by lack of transparency, going to start digging into this tomorrow with officials. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/capita-dogged-by-it-problem-for-three-days-wthl2zp5v

Capita dogged by IT problem for three days

An IT meltdown at Capita continued over the weekend, fuelling speculation of a cyberattack at a company that handles key public service contracts. Staff, incl

The Times
#Capita finally admit they have a cybersecurity incident. No details about what is happening, it’s a regulatory notification. They had been privately briefing customers it wasn’t security related. https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/CPI/statement-re-cyber-incident/15901425
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I am told various UK regulatory authorities are beginning to look into what has happened at #Capita as there is varying degrees of concern about different elements, e.g. disclosure to customers and ongoing data access.
#Capita have changed their website frontpage to be a response to the cyber incident.

#Capita are listed on Black Basta ransomware portal as a victim.

They posted various screenshots of access to personal data (e.g. passport scans), security vetting, nuclear BACS payment details, architecture diagrams, school reports etc - Capita customer data.

#threatintel

http://stniiomyjliimcgkvdszvgen3eaaoz55hreqqx6o77yvmpwt7gklffqd.onion/?id=CAPITA

#Capita's breach is also being sold on the portal, you can pay cryptocurrency for "Remote exclusive server with data of "CAPITA""

Black Basta focus on data exfiltration, traditionally using rclone. Prior reading: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/black-basta-threat-profile.pdf

I took a look at Capita’s ransomware incident, and look at what they’ve told the media and customers versus the reality of what has happened.

Black Basta ransomware group extorts Capita with stolen customer data, Capita fumble response.

https://doublepulsar.com/black-basta-ransomware-group-extorts-capita-with-stolen-customer-data-capita-fumble-response-9c3ca6c3b283

Black Basta ransomware group extorts Capita with stolen customer data, Capita fumble response.

There’s an interesting piece in The Times today, where the CEO of Capita declares Capita’s response to the hack “will go down as a case history for how to deal with a sophisticated cyberattack”…

DoublePulsar

The Times website has a report this evening about the Black Basta breach of Capita. Capita still deny there is any evidence of data being compromised.. in a story that even includes details of Capita’s office floor plans leaking. #ransomware

https://t.co/3gSWyKp3bE

Capita faces deepening hack crisis

The attack by Russian cybercriminals on one of the UK’s biggest outsourcing companies, Capita, appears far more serious than the company has admitted. Persona

The Sunday Times
#Capita are apparently now known as the "BBC license fee firm"... which might explain why BBC News haven't even mentioned the initial outage I guess. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-16/data-feared-stolen-at-bbc-licence-fee-firm-amid-hack-telegraph
Data Feared Stolen at BBC Licence Fee Firm Amid Hack: Telegraph

Capita, one of Britain’s biggest outsourcing companies, is investigating whether sensitive data had been stolen from its systems after a Russian-speaking cyber gang posted a cache of documents online, the Telegraph reported.

Bloomberg

The Record reports #Capita is "...understood to be working to establish whether the data is authentic or if the extortion group had cobbled it together from other sources."

Maybe the source is cobbled together from Capita Business Services... or Capita Nuclear. Or one of the other Capita business units in the #BlackBasta portal. https://therecord.media/capita-investigates-authenticity-data-leak

Capita investigates authenticity of ransomware gang leaks

The UK outsourcing company has not been able to confirm the source of the information released by a ransomware group, a spokesperson told The Record.

Capita data breach has made BBC News. Capita still pretending it isn't happening.
@GossiTheDog Wow, that certainly is a new take on "there is no evidence to indicate" weasel wording.