Shell introduced on Friday that it had skilled a cybersecurity incident involving workers at BG Group in Australia. This incident is linked to the MOVEit hack, which has affected a number of companies globally. MOVEit is a software program software generally used to switch giant quantities of delicate information, together with pension data and social safety numbers. Shell said that unauthorized people accessed private data associated to affected people and acknowledged the chance of id theft and phishing campaigns. The info in query is from 2013 and though a few of it might be outdated, there’s nonetheless a possible threat to impacted people.

Shell accomplished its acquisition of BG Group in 2016, which expanded its oil and fuel initiatives in international locations like Australia and Brazil. Though the precise variety of people impacted has not been clarified by Shell, the corporate started notifying affected workers members in early July. This incident is a part of a sequence of safety breaches in company Australia since late final yr, prompting the federal government to reform cybersecurity guidelines and set up an company to supervise authorities funding within the discipline. Analysts have identified that this incident exposes weaknesses in Australia’s company ecosystem and raises questions concerning the effectiveness of the federal government’s cybersecurity technique.