Virgin Media spills personal details of 900,000 customers in data breach
Misconfigured marketing customer database access ‘did not include any passwords or financial details’, Virgin Media claims
Virgin Media admitted the data breach on the same day that internet services went down across the whole of North London
Virgin Media has admitted to a 10-month long data breach in which the personal details of 900,000 customers and ex-customers could have been compromised. It blames a misconfigured marketing database, and...
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