Nuisance calls to mobile phones soaring despite crackdown on cold calling companies December 8, 2015 Nuisance calls to mobile phones are soaring in the UK, despite a clampdown on unwanted calls and texts. Some 72 per cent of Britons have had at least one cold call from a company in the last month, up from just over half, 55 per cent, in 2013. Both the government and regulators have been [...]
JD Wetherspoon share price rises despite warning customer details stolen in cyber attack December 4, 2015 Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has said that the personal details of more than 650,000 customers may have been stolen in a cyber attack, and a small portion of this included credit card data. For the majority of customers no financial data was stolen, and no passwords were obtained. However, the last four digits of around 100 customers' credit [...]
TalkTalk hack: Dido Harding and other execs could face grilling from MPs November 4, 2015 Executives at telecoms giant TalkTalk could face a grilling from MPs later this month as part of an influential parliamentary committee's investigation into the company's latest data breach. MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport committee announced this morning that they are launching an inquiry into the "circumstances surrounding" the recent cyber-attack on Talk Talk's website. The committee [...]
British Gas customer login data leaked in third personal data incident in a week after TalkTalk cyber attack and Marks & Spencer technical glitch October 29, 2015 The account details of as many as 2,000 customers of British Gas have been leaked online, in the third high-profile personal data leak in less than a week. Email addresses and passwords to login to British Gas accounts were posted on the text upload website Pastebin, but the company believes the information leak was not as a result of [...]
Faceless fears: no one hears you scream online – it is far too distant and anonymous September 15, 2015 Opening shots René Carayol THERE IS rarely a business bulletin nowadays that doesn’t mention a significant successful fraud. This is of course not the full picture, as most businesses and many consumers do not feel compelled to report their perceived lax controls. It’s now nearly always a sophisticated cyber-attack or the now more prosaic online [...]
UK fights back at the Streisand Effect, orders Google to remove links to “right to be forgotten” stories August 21, 2015 How do you get the internet to forget something? Over a year after the EU’s “right to be forgotten” ruling against Google, there’s still a dilemma left unsolved, which the UK has now taken steps to tackle. The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has ordered the search giant to remove links to news stories about the [...]
Company claiming to block nuisance calls fined £50,000… for nuisance calls August 11, 2015 A firm claiming to help stop people from receiving nuisance calls has been fined £50,000 – for making nuisance calls. Point One Marketing, which trades as “Stop the Calls”, was marketing a call-blocking device for phones, as well as a service that removes people from a cold call database. But an investigation by [...]
Dixons Carphone share price dips after massive data breach leaves 2.4m customers at risk August 10, 2015 Shares in Dixons Carphone, the company behind Carphone Warehouse, which over the weekend admitted it had been targeted in a "sophisticated" cyber attack which left 2.4m customers' payment details vulnerable, fell 1.7 per cent to 448.26p as the market opened. However, they later regained some of those losses, rising to 450p, 1.3 per cent lower than Friday's [...]
Carphone Warehouse draws data watchdog probe after millions of customer details hacked August 10, 2015 The UK's data watchdog is investigating a huge data breach at high street retailer Carphone Warehouse which has put millions of customers at risk. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is "making enquiries" into the attack in which the private information of more than two million customers, such as card details, addresses and dates of birth, [...]
Carphone Warehouse cyber attack probed by data watchdog ICO August 10, 2015 Dixons Carphone has suffered its first major blow since last year’s £4bn merger after admitting to a huge data breach that has put millions of customers at risk and sparked an investigation by the UK’s data watchdog. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) said yesterday that it is “making enquiries” into the attack after being [...]