The most recent case of a company falling victim to the Blackbaud, which have affected at least 125 organisations in the UK, is the National Trust.
Blackbaud, the cloud computing provider , was forced to notify dozens of charities, organizations, and universities after falling victim to malicious actors in May.
The US company said that despite the breach, it has not detected any leaked bank accounts or payment details falling into the hands of cybercriminals ,but confirmed that it paid a ransom to stop the destruction of its systems.
The National Trust announced last night that data relating to its "volunteering and fundraising community" was included in the breach, but its database of five million members was not affected.
Jon Townsend, the charity's chief information officer, said: "We take our data protection obligations very seriously. As soon as we became aware of this incident, we launched an internal investigation and are working with the third party supplier, Blackbaud, to assess whether further action is required.".
As the Information Commissioner's Office announced yesterday, 125 organizations have so far been affected by the incident, but it is expected that this number will increase.
A host of universities and organisations, including Sue Ryder, the disease charity, and Crisis, the homeless charity, are among those affected.
An ICO spokesperson said: “BlackBaud has reported a data breach that has potentially affected a large number of UK organisations that use its services and we are investigating.”
"The organizations involved should contact their customers to inform them if their personal data has been affected.".
The attack took place in May but was discovered this month and has raised major privacy concerns, as Blackbaud said hackers had copied a subset of data from its systems. Blackbaud said it was able to stop the hackers from locking it out of its system and encrypting its files. It paid the cybercriminals a ransom to delete the data and said it had received confirmation that the copy had been destroyed.
