Virtual Mail Room fell victim to a data breach incident exposing private details relating to more than 50,000 banks and local authorities.
The attack revealed highly personal information of the customers of various clients incliding 6,500 customers of Aldermore Bank 250 Metro Bank customers.
The company immediately took the notice and secured the exposed database to contain the leak.
Source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/virtual-mail-room-data-breach
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/virtual-mail-room
"id": "vir103212422",
"linkid": "virtual-mail-room",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2020",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 6500,
'industry': 'Financial Services',
'name': 'Aldermore Bank',
'type': 'Bank'},
{'customers_affected': 250,
'industry': 'Financial Services',
'name': 'Metro Bank',
'type': 'Bank'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 50000,
'type_of_data_compromised': 'Highly personal information'},
'description': 'Virtual Mail Room fell victim to a data breach incident '
'exposing private details relating to more than 50,000 banks '
'and local authorities. The attack revealed highly personal '
'information of the customers of various clients including '
'6,500 customers of Aldermore Bank and 250 Metro Bank '
'customers.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': 'Highly personal information'},
'response': {'containment_measures': 'Secured the exposed database'},
'title': 'Data Breach at Virtual Mail Room',
'type': 'Data Breach'}