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Virgin Media announced Thursday March 5 that the personal details of 900,000 customers had been accessed by a third party as the company left a marketing database unsecured for months, according to the Financial Times.Britains second-largest broadcast company stanley cup , which is owned by billionaire John Malones Liberty Global, has been dealing with the problem all week as it discovered that the database in question had never been secured properly.The breach was one of the largest in the U.K. as of late due to the sheer volume of customers affected.Virgin Media stated in response to the incident that the breach was caused by a staff member not following the stanley cup proper directions, and said the incident was not a cyberattack.But the marketing database was accessed by at least one person outside of the company, and it had been left open since around April of last year. The issue was only rectified last week.CEO Lutz Sch眉ler said there was no evidence that the data of any customers had been used for illicit purposes while speaking on the sidelines of a London media conference.The data breach affected roughly 15 percent of the companys fixed line user base, and some Virgin Mobile users were also included. Non-Virgin Media users could have also been affected as the database included some refer a friend promotions. The information didnt includ stanley de e passwords or financial details, but did include email addresses, phone numbers and details of their contract with the company, which could be valuab Xery Juggling SMEs Financing Needs In 28 Member States
Not only did hacktivist group Anonymous take credit for launching a cyberattack against Greeces central bank, but they also warned that more attacks are on the way.A Bank of Greece official told Reuters on Wednesday May 4 that Anonymous was responsible for the disruption of its website.The attack lasted for a few minutes and was successfully tackled by the bank security systems. The only thing that was affected by the denial-of-service attack was our website, the official confirmed.The groups attack on the central bank also came at the same time an ominous message was posted on You Tube, saying, Olympus will fall. A few days ago we declared the revival of operatio stanley us n Icarus. Today we have continuously taken down the website of the Bank of Greece, the video message continued. This marks the start of a 30-day campaign against central bank sites across the world.Last summer, the group set its sights on the U.S. Census Bureau.The hackers leaked bureau employee data in what was deemed to be a protest against stanley mugs the TTIP agreement or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership .The hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which data compromised stanley cup included several thousand employee names, phone numbers, addresses and also their positions within the government. The information was published online and included password hashes. |
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