Capita

Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action

95% pertain to pension schemes administered by outsourcing giant, says Barings Law

Cyber-crime21 Jul 2023 | 12

Capita staffers told attackers stole data from its own pension fund

Three months after mega breach by Russian cybercrime group

Cyber-crime07 Jul 2023 | 15

Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach

Barings Law claims 250 people that 'suspect' data theft signed up to class action

Cyber-crime16 Jun 2023 | 15

Capita wins £50M fraud reporting contract with City of London cops

No, the irony isn't lost on us either

Security14 Jun 2023 | 26

More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder

As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks

Cyber-crime22 May 2023 | 35

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Colchester City Council says it and others caught up in new incident, reckons benefits data of local citizens exposed

Security17 May 2023 | 31

Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

USS says burgled biz reckons data on 470,000 'active, deferred and retired' members may have been accessed

Cyber-crime12 May 2023 | 38

Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract

Outsourcer asked to take 'principled stance'

Security12 May 2023 | 23

Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs

Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater'

Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 9

Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

Weeks after outsourcer admits 'cyber incident' more warnings issued

Cyber-crime05 May 2023 | 23

Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary

Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end

Cyber-crime20 Apr 2023 | 14

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

No worries, outsourcer only handles government tech contracts worth billions

Cyber-crime18 Apr 2023 | 40

Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems

Staff regain access to Microsoft apps, tech outsourcer still working to restore services for some

Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 24

British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue'

Earning that nickname all over again

Off-Prem31 Mar 2023 | 53

Capita to see wave of UK government contracts come to an end by 2025

Technology firms rank second in UK list of strategic public-sector suppliers

On-Prem31 May 2022 | 11

Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m

Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO

Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1

Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita

Company ousts British Council in running Erasmus replacement

On-Prem09 Dec 2021 | 47

Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire

Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across

On-Prem02 Dec 2021 | 56

UK Ministry of Defence tries again to procure £1.7bn tri-service recruitment system

New guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right?

On-Prem24 Sep 2021 | 33

UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework

The usual suspects

PaaS + IaaS26 Aug 2021 | 20

British teachers' pensions set to be released from Capita's grasp after nearly 30 years

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025

Applications24 Aug 2021 | 34

SWAN-song: Scotland re-tenders WAN framework for up to £350m

Capita won current deal worth £325m to run public-sector networks until 2023

Networks18 Aug 2021 | 6

In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

Databases23 Jul 2021 | 12

The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m

It's the longest day of the year

Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5

Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer

Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship?

Networks15 Jun 2021 | 9

Shuttered call centre sours Capita's £58m contract extension with Tesco Mobile

Communication Workers Union believes 'scores of employees' will be placed 'at risk' under proposals

Networks11 Jun 2021 | 8

Capita: We're creating a 'Portfolio' division to house all the stuff we don't want

Welcome to the Great Fire sale of old London town

On-Prem17 Mar 2021 | 6

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Fail fast, fail often

Devops15 Feb 2021 | 24

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces

On-Prem18 Dec 2020 | 94

What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract

Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live

On-Prem14 Dec 2020 | 11

Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m

Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates

On-Prem14 Dec 2020 | 7

The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder

Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap

Software27 Nov 2020 | 10

Millions wiped off value of Capita outsourcing deal with English councils amid 'further contract variation agreement'

Updated Procurement services? Not any more. Exchequer services? No thanks. IT Services? Reduced

On-Prem23 Nov 2020 | 36

Pass us a tissue: Capita CFO calls it quits, talks of 'privilege' to work at 'centre' of biz that 'touches the lives of millions'

New interim human calculator hired, permanent replacement being hunted

On-Prem16 Nov 2020 | 12

Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing

Perhaps if you didn't price it higher than the market cap of the entire Group, you'd have sold it before now

Software10 Nov 2020 | 6

Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early

Exclusive A sliver of functions coming back in house, most being offshored to India and 380 UK roles put 'at risk' of redundo by Capita

On-Prem06 Nov 2020 | 46

UK govt: It's time to get staff back into the office! Capita: Hey everyone... about that...

Outsourcer's employees 'would like to work in a more flexible way'

On-Prem01 Sep 2020 | 58

Capita: We were juuust about to generate revenue growth and sustainable cash flow – then pandemic stuffed it up

Profits collapse and income slows as virus stymies turnaround plan

On-Prem18 Aug 2020 | 16

UK Home Office dishes out contracts to 999 control room vendors after wasting cash on network tech it abandoned

Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga

Networks11 Aug 2020 | 15

Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud

For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen?

SaaS10 Aug 2020 | 25

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe

On-Prem04 Aug 2020 | 4

Firefighters to UK Home Office: Yeah, maybe don't turn off emergency comms network before replacement is ready

Prospects of cursed ESN project still murky for customers-to-be

Networks30 Jul 2020 | 39

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Taxpayers shelled out £1.3bn for this 'abysmal' flop

Security22 Jul 2020 | 95

Capita Consulting ditching more than a quarter of its workforce 45 days after consultations with consultants

Exclusive 100 people have lost their jobs, COVID-19 blamed

SaaS03 Jul 2020 | 40

Capita capital capitulates to COVID-19 coronavirus: Pandemic blamed as top line sags 10%

Well, that and the 'contract losses'

On-Prem25 Jun 2020 | 3

Gulp! Irish Water outsources contact centres to Capita for up to €27m over 7 years

The most valuable commodity on the planet? Yep, outsourcing

Software16 Jun 2020 | 52

It's June, and you guessed it! Pork barrel time for resellers as £500m public sector framework gets go-ahead

18 county and city councils – as well as an NHS trust – get ready to dish out taxpayers' cash

On-Prem16 Jun 2020 | 6

Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework

What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain

Channel18 May 2020 | 17

Capita to continue managing Brit teachers' pensions well into the 2020s

Four more years! Four more years!

On-Prem27 Apr 2020 | 6

Capita to place bit less sauce in outsourcing execs' share awards packets

CEO, CFO take a 70% cut in light of performance, COVID-19 situation

On-Prem23 Apr 2020 | 16

Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses

Exclusive Asked to verify the identity of medics using video chat apps Zoom and Facetime

On-Prem07 Apr 2020 | 52

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

Outsourcer vows to help efforts in healthcare call centres

On-Prem27 Mar 2020 | 10

Capita CEO and CFO take 'voluntary' pay cut of 25% amid coronavirus outbreak

Exec raises spectre of other cost-cutting activities but doesn't yet mention redundancies

On-Prem24 Mar 2020 | 23

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

What could go wrong?

Networks11 Mar 2020 | 45

Turnover down, losses widen and shares crash: So, business as usual at Capita

2019 was year two of the magic turnaround and restructuring deepens

On-Prem05 Mar 2020 | 13

Fire Brigades Union warns of wonky IT causing dangerous delays in 999 control rooms

In some of UK's worst flood-hit areas

Networks19 Feb 2020 | 48