Members of the UK’s largest higher education pensions scheme say the response to their data being hacked has been “wholly inadequate”, as lawyers consider bringing a group case on behalf of those affected.
Anyone who was a member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) in 2021 was warned last month that files containing their personal details had been accessed by hackers when they targeted the firm Capita, a technology supplier used by the pensions fund.
Names, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers, USS member numbers and retirement dates were all included in the stolen data, potentially affecting 470,000 people. Black Basta, a Russian ransomware gang, claimed responsibility for the attack.
USS has stressed that members’ pensions are secure and Capita has – to date – found no evidence the data stolen was circulating widel
