“To give Bupa credit it appears to be communicating openly with concerned customers, and going out of its way to answer questions. Data of at least 100,000 customers of private health insurer BUPA were offered for sale by a rogue employee on the dark web , cyber experts Databreaches said . A vendor calling themselves MoZeal has attempted to sell birthdates , nationalities , home phone numbers , personal emails , work addresses and BUPA IDs of customers from 122 countries , Databreaches said . MoZeal claimed to have up to a million customers ' data . BUPA contacted its customers and apologised after being made aware of the attempted sale . It said it had found the data related to about 100,000 customers , not a million , and that it 's since strengthened it .
Data of at least 100,000 customers of private health insurer BUPA were offered for sale by a rogue employee on the dark web , cyber experts Databreaches said . A vendor calling themselves MoZeal has attempted to sell birthdates , nationalities , home phone numbers , personal emails , work addresses and BUPA IDs of customers from 122 countries , Databreaches said . MoZeal claimed to have up to a million customers ' data . BUPA contacted its customers and apologised after being made aware of the attempted sale . It said it had found the data related to about 100,000 customers , not a million , and that it 's since strengthened it .