Researchers: Virgin Media's exposed marketing database included 1,100+ records of customer requests to block or unblock websites with porn and extreme “gore”
Records linking contact details to gambling and pornography sites may have been accessed
Financial Times Nic Fildes
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Discussion
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@nicfildes
CyNic Fildes
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NEW on the Virgin Media data breach: data on customers that asked to block/unblock websites - including porn, extreme gore, gambling - linked to contact details was also on the database. It's a small subset of 900k but serious due to potential extortion https://www.ft.com/...
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@gossithedog
Kevin Beaumont
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The Beeb confirm the Virgin Media incident was a database without a password. Can't be hacked if you didn't try to secure it in the first place. https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
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@lukolejnik
Lukasz Olejnik
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Data of 900,000 Virgin Media customers breached. #GDPR https://www.ft.com/...; also T-Mobile customer breach (https://www.t-mobile.com/...)
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@jimwaterson
Jim Waterson
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If you're a Virgin Media customer paying an excessive amount for broadband, you may (like me) be one of the lucky customers told tonight that our personal info has been left on an unsecured database for a year! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@zackwhittaker
Zack Whittaker
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Looks like an unprotected database. That's going to be a painful GDPR fine. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...