Media and publishing giant News Corp has disclosed that the threat actors who compromised the company's systems had access to its networks for about two years.
The New York-headquartered company revealed new details about the data breach in notification letters [pdf] sent to affected employees.
Last year, News Corp said it had detected cyberattacks on a business email and document storage system that was utilised by multiple businesses of the firm. The company first detected unauthorised activity on the storage system in January 2022.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the incident last year, said that the breach impacted major news divisions of the company, including the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the company's UK news operations.
News Corp now says that an unauthorised third party had gained access to some business documents and emails from a limited number of employee accounts within the compromised system between February 2020 and January 2022.
The personal data compromised during the breach included one or more of the following pieces of information for each impacted individual:
While the company did not disclose the number of employees impacted, it said that the unauthorised access does not appear to have been targeted towards exploiting personal information.
Additionally, the company has no evidence of ..
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