Capita is embroiled in a brand new knowledge breach incident, as its consumer Colchester Council accused the outsourcer of “unsafe storage of non-public knowledge”.

Colchester Council stated it had expressed “excessive disappointment with Capita” following revelations of a “critical knowledge breach”.

The council stated it was taking “swift and decisive motion”, including that it understood that the incident had affected a number of different native authorities across the nation.

Capita delivers providers to plenty of native authorities together with Colchester, Barking and Dagenham, and Barnet. Knowledge belonging to colleges in Sheffield was leaked following the Capita hack in March.

The most recent revelation comes because the impact of the cyber assault in March continues to reverberate. Capita wrote to its pension trustee shoppers final week that its investigation into the hack is “sadly taking longer than beforehand estimated”.

“The evaluation stays a posh, labour intensive train, and in consequence this locations danger on deliberate timescales,” Capita stated, including it was “hesitant to supply a set date on which we anticipate the evaluation to be full” however was focusing on “on or round” Might 27.

Amongst Capita’s pension plan shoppers, USS — the UK’s greatest personal sector pension plan — earlier this month warned that the private knowledge of about half 1,000,000 members might have been stolen through the cyber assault.

Capita additionally supplies a variety of providers to departments inside central authorities together with the Ministry of Defence. The outsourcer administers recruitment for the military in addition to coaching for the Royal Navy and defence hearth and rescue providers.

A authorities spokesperson stated: “We’re conscious of the cyber incident which affected Capita and are in common contact with the corporate. The difficulty primarily affected inner processes with minimal affect on authorities providers.”

Nonetheless, the MoD has elevated safety and monitoring of its connections with Capita, based on an individual acquainted with the matter.

In a parliamentary debate final week, Jeremy Quin stated the Cupboard Workplace, the Monetary Conduct Authority and the Nationwide Cyber Safety Centre have been working with Capita to grasp the dangers to authorities knowledge following the hack.

A spokesperson for Capita stated the corporate was “working with our third-party technical advisers to research” the most recent revelation of an information breach involving Colchester Council, including that the historic knowledge was “safe and now not accessible”. The outsourcer declined to touch upon its inner investigation on pension plan consumer knowledge.