The UK’s largest childbirth charity has apologised to 15,000 parents after their registration information was accessed in a “data breach”.
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) sent an email to parent’s chief executive, Nick Wilkie, saying that their email addresses, usernames and passwords were compromised.
However, they were quick to reassure parents that “these details are limited to their email address, username and an encrypted version of the password that they created to register on the site.”
“We stress that no financial or personal details are held as part of this data so no financial or personal details have been accessed.”
The charity supports hundreds of thousands of new and expectant parents across the UK from their base in Euston Square, London.
NCT had a final warning for users however.
“While your password is encrypted, as a precaution, I would advise you to change any password as soon as possible for other accounts or registrations that use these details”.
