The pay and benefits of multiple staff of daa have been "compromised" after a cyber attack on third-party professional service provider Aon.
The attack affected nearly 2,000 Dublin Airport staff, according to Britain's Sunday Times, as well as agencies and companies in the US and the UK.
In a statement to Dublin Live, a daa spokesman explained that Aon's data was recently breached through an attack on the file transfer software tool MOVEit. As a result, data relating to some employees’ pay and benefits was compromised.
The daa spokesman added: "daa takes the security of sensitive personal information extremely seriously and has notified the Data Protection Commission of the third-party breach.
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"daa is offering support, advice and assistance to employees impacted by this criminal cyber-attack.”
The spokesman stressed that there has not been a cybersecurity breach at daa and it was the third-party supplier Aon that the incident relates to.
Aon has been contracted by daa to compile and print personalised total rewards statements to some daa employees.
daa is only one of a large number of Aon clients impacted by the cyber-attack.
Last month, Aer Lingus confirmed the major cyber attack compromised the personal information of around 5,000 of its employees.
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