25 August 2021

Christian organisation the Salvation Army confirmed that its UK arm was targeted by a ransomware attack. The Register reported that the evangelical Christian church and charity identified the attack in June and it is believed that its London data centre was affected by the incident. A Salvation Army spokesperson confirmed data was compromised and said it alerted regulators in the UK. However, they did not give any further information, such as the identity of the criminal attackers, or the volume and type of data accessed by them. To date, nothing has emerged on known ransomware gang sites, where gangs typically resell stolen information to other criminals for further exploitation