{"id":19041,"date":"2025-06-05T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:37:31","slug":"100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in \u00a347m phishing attack on HMRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face \u2018no financial loss\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>HM Revenue and Customs has lost \u00a347m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their accounts were locked down in what the officials said was an \u201corganised crime\u201d incident that began last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jun\/04\/100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c24b73fd1d29d040bef47aaa6eb42c8cfac65aed\/520_0_5200_4160\/master\/5200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b93401b133970845b8d97ef78f6d802e\" title=\"100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in \u00a347m phishing attack on HMRC\" \/>MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face \u2018no financial loss\u2019<br \/>\nHM Revenue and Customs has lost \u00a347m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.<br \/>\nTwo senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their accounts were locked down in what the officials said was an \u201corganised crime\u201d incident that began last year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face \u2018no financial loss\u2019 HM Revenue and Customs has lost \u00a347m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard. Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in \u00a347m phishing attack on HMRC<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}