[Kushan]

It doesn't matter whether or not someone tried to use that data against you (be it blackmail or regular "spam"), what matters is that it was exposed and leaked by Virgin.

Virgin - and any other company holding your personal information - has a responsibility to look after that personal information.

It's not up to you or anyone else to decide if that information is okay to be out in public or not, that's what makes it personal information and even if you personally don't give a crap about your own information, others get to decide on their own information.

For far too long, companies haven't taken this seriously. This is why we ended up with GDPR, as much as people love to hate it and all the stupid emails that came with it, it's a direct result of companies not taking this kind of thing seriously.

All that being said, I'm not sure how much I would trust yourlawyers.co.uk, this seems like an utter cash grab. And there's no way 900,000 people are getting £5k each.