Update: BP data breach affected 60,000 after malware attack on PageUp job portal

Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly:

BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job applicants than initially suspected.

BP has emailed about 60,000 people who applied for jobs in its retail stores since 2008 to notify them they could have had their personal information accessed by hackers. The company originally thought about 10,000 applicants’ data had been breached.