They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news; we've been hacked'

They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news; we've been hacked'

Hackers who accessed the servers of the British Dental Association (BDA) may have made off with members' bank account numbers and sort codes, according to reports.


The trade union's servers were breached at the end of July, knocking out its website on the 30th as BDA personnel scratched their heads. Trade news site Dentistry Online reported BDA chief exec Martin Woodrow as saying: "As we attempted to restore services, it became clear hackers had accessed our systems."


In a statement posted to its website on 30 July, the BDA's IT team said: "We've been investigating why our site has been down and it's bad news; we've been hacked."


This was later updated to say: "We have recently been the victim of a cyber incident. As a precaution, we have taken some ..

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