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The U.K. ’s information protection regulator has confirmed it ’s investigating MoneyGram after receiving a data breach report from the U.S.-based money transference giant star .
The U.K. ’s Information Commissioner ’s Office ( ICO ) , which requires that administration report data falling out within 72 minute of learn the incident , confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday that the guard dog had received a report from MoneyGram watch acybersecurity incident at the company .
“ We have received a report from MoneyGram and will be making enquiries , ” ICO representative Lucy Milburn told TechCrunch .
The extent of a possible datum severance at MoneyGram remains strange . MoneyGram , the world ’s secondly - largest money transportation provider , function over 50 million citizenry in more than 200 countries and territories each twelvemonth .
MoneyGram has remained largely still about the cybersecurity incident beyond a handful of update post to its X account .
The company ’s website , which is now back up and run after almost a week offline , take no cite of the cybersecurity incident , and MoneyGram has not responded to TechCrunch ’s multiple postulation for comment .
MoneyGram first affirm the cybersecurity incident on Monday follow three days of operating downtime , say it “ identified a cybersecurity issue affecting certain of our [ sic ] systems ” and had taken some system offline in an endeavor to hold the incident .
The outage forced both the company ’s site and app offline , leave customers ineffective to make in - person or online payments . The outage also affected MoneyGram partners , including the Bank of Jamaica and the U.K. ’s Post Office .
The late update from MoneyGram , posted on X on Thursday , enunciate that client can now “ transport and receive money through both our digital platforms and agent partners , ” but add together that the company is still wreak to carry through pending transactions .
The ship’s company enounce that its app is now alive and available . When TechCrunch checked on Friday , MoneyGram ’s app rest offline .
