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Originally Posted by Gavin-D
PORN COCK-UP Virgin Media faces £4.5billion fine after exposing customers’ PORN searches
VIRGIN Media faces a comp- ensation bill of £4.5billion after leaving customers’ private details online, including which porn sites they watch. The telecoms giant left the personal details of 900,000 customers accessible for ten months.
Full names, email addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers — and also their requests to unblock explicit websites — were listed. The database, used for marketing purposes, included 1,100 names who asked for adult websites to be unblocked by using online forms.
Most phone networks automatically block the sites and ask users to provide proof of age. The data breach did not include passwords or financial details. Your Lawyers, a consumer action and data breach law firm, is suing Virgin Media for affected customers after the breach was uncovered by a security researcher earlier this year.
It estimates each of them could be in line for £5,000 compensation for financial and emotional distress.
Crooks could have used the information to blackmail or scam victims. The cock-up was caused by an incorrectly configured database.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/11266...ata-leak-porn/
Virgin Media customers who received and still have proof (email sent from VM) you can join the Virgin Media Data Breach Group Action below to seek compensation.
https://www.yourlawyers.co.uk/
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Cheers Gavin, i've just done this, five grand would come in very handy. It would also help to impress the importance of keeping customer details safe on this incompetent company in the only way they understand.
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Originally Posted by iadom
I would guess that today’s ambulance chasing lawyers will argue that every single person sent the email would have been exposed to some degree of inconvenience even if like me it was just a noticeable increase in spam.
I have already deleted the email.  |
Yes, claimants have to confirm that this has caused them distress and in what way.