Job portal breach widens to 60,000 BP applicants

BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal compromised the data of more job applicants than initially suspected. The fuel company has emailed about 60,000 people who applied for jobs in its retail stores since 2008 to notify them that their personal details could have been accessed by an ‘‘unauthorised third party’’. BP first thought about 10,000 applicants’ data had been breached. Its online recruitment provider, PageUp, first detected the breach on May 23, but further forensic investigations found that anyone who had applied for jobs at BP retail establishments since 2008 could have had their data compromised. BP advised past job applicants that ‘‘at this stage there is no evidence the data was extracted, only accessed’’.