Personal data of Rio Tinto Ltd's former and current employees may have been stolen by a cybercriminal group, according to a staff memo.
According to Rio Tinto, the stolen data relates to an attack on GoAnywhere, a third-party app it uses
In a memo, Rio Tinto says the cybercriminal group has threatened to release the data onto the dark web "To date, none of the records described above have been released, and we still do not know if the cybercriminal group holds these records or not," the memo said.
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