The incidents kept getting worse, with more and more organizations revealing that they were attacked by Cl0p. On June 5, a cyberattack on Zellis, a payroll business, affected British Airways (BA), the BBC, and Boots. The hack, which at the time was directly connected to the use of the MOVEit vulnerability, revealed the personal information of thousands of workers (two days later, BA and BBC received the standard ransomware demand from Cl0p.) As of June 15th, First National Bank, Putnam Investments, and 1st Source were among the financial services providers affected, in addition to the oil giant Shell. Though more would surface as the year went on, ransom demands seemed to crescendo at the end of the month, with Cl0p identifying and shaming Siemens Energy and Schneider Electric as the most recent victims of what now appeared to be one of the worst cyberattacks in history.
Also, June was a memorable month for the UK government’s AI goals. On June 8, the government announced their first AI summit, where it provided opportunity to world leaders to discuss regulations for a technology that many believed possessed a potential to either improve or destroy
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