RNLI warns supporters their personal information may have been hacked

Data raid comes amid targeting of lifeboat charity by far-right agitators who object to migrant boat rescues

Supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) have been warned that their personal information could have been stolen by hackers amid targeting of the charity by far-right agitators.

In a letter accompanying the autumn copy of its Lifeboat magazine, the charity warned members that their “name, contact details and records of interactions with the RNLI” could have been breached in the raid on a company it uses for customer relationship management.