Multiple daa staff have had their pay and benefits "compromised" following a cyber attack on third-party professional service provider Aon.
The cyber attack has affected almost 2,000 Dublin Airport staff, alongside agencies and companies in the US and the UK, Britain's Sunday Times reports.
The third-party provider had been contracted by daa to compile and print personalised total rewards statements for some daa employees. Daa is not the only company impacted by the cyber attack, with a large number of Aon clients also being affected.
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A spokesman for the for daa explained that Aon’s data was breached recently as a result of an attack on the file transfer software tool MOVEit, due to this, data relating to some employees’ pay and benefits became 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.
"daa is offering support, advice and assistance to employees impacted by this criminal cyber-attack.”
This is the most recent cyberattack to hit Ireland. Last month, Aer Lingus confirmed a major cyber attack compromised the personal information of around 5,000 of its employees.
This was not the only cyber attack in recent times. In June, the HSE was also hit with a second 'international-scale' cyber attack.
This is the second cyber attack on the organisation, with a large-scale hack occurring in 2021, however, it's understood the attack in June is on a smaller scale in terms of impact on data and no patient data was compromised.
