Gallagher faces legal action over response to ransomware attack
Broker faces class action in the United States following a cyber breach in September 2020 which also saw personal data of individuals in the UK accessed.
Gallagher has been criticised for taking over a year to contact individuals who were impacted by a cyber breach at the broker in September 2020.
The business took its global systems offline on 26 September last year after it was hit by a ransomware attack on its internal systems.
Gallagher is now facing a class action in the United States, which was filed by Jason Myers and ex Gallagher employee John Parsons, on behalf of “all others similarly situated”.
According to the claim, hackers
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