Oxfam confirms customer data accessed but not copied

Charity group, Oxfam, has issued a secondary statement to customers, following a hack attack sustained on Tuesday, assuring them that although email data had been accessed, none of it was either downloaded or copied.

It is now thought that Oxfam was only one victim yesterday of a concerted attack by the hacker known as 'Herbless'

The charity was hit by a security attack yesterday in which the email details of 300 customers were accessed.

A spokeswoman for the group explained on Wednesday that a friendly hack was suspected.

The organisation is just the latest in a series of high profile names to have suffered security breaches in recent weeks.

However, Oxfam immediately shut down its website and that morning alerted all 300 affected users and requested them to report any suspicious mail to the organisation.

The organisation confirmed that no credit card details had been accessed.