{"id":2602,"date":"2022-09-20T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nebrcentre.co.uk\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:10:44","slug":"leading-uk-roofing-firm-falls-victim-to-major-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/leading-uk-roofing-firm-falls-victim-to-major-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading UK Roofing Firm Falls Victim to Major Cyber Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eurocell, a\u00a0leading PVC-U roofing products manufacturer and distributor,\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/business\/2022\/09\/08\/eurocell-employee-details-exposed-in-major-cyber-attack\/\">suffered a major cyber attack<\/a>\u00a0in the past few days that led to\u00a0a third-party\u00a0gaining access to confidential data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been reported that employees were contacted&nbsp;by the firm to inform them that data belonging to employees \u2013 including contracts, personal information, bank details, and other confidential&nbsp;information \u2013 had been accessed by hackers and copied from IT systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation is currently underway and legal representatives for victims of the data breach are concerned that the data may be sold on the dark web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how the cyber criminals gained access to&nbsp;Eurocell\u2019s systems, but the firm has claimed that \u201cthere is currently no evidence of the data being misused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have concerns regarding the safety of your data, please get in touch at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:enquiries@nebrcentre.co.uk\">enquiries@nebrcentre.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further support,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/core-membership-sign-up\/\">our free core membership<\/a>&nbsp;includes resources to help your business stay safe online, with a regular email newsletter containing the latest updates on threats and cyber security guidance.&nbsp;Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/\">Home &#8211;&nbsp;North East&nbsp;Business Resilience (nebrcentre.co.uk)<\/a>&nbsp;for further information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NEBRC is a non-profit&nbsp;organisation that aims to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/services\/\">inform, support, and protect businesses from online crime and fraud<\/a>&nbsp;through cyber security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurocell, a\u00a0leading PVC-U roofing products manufacturer and distributor,\u00a0has\u00a0suffered a major cyber attack\u00a0in the past few days that led to\u00a0a third-party\u00a0gaining access to confidential data. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}