Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
JD Wetherspoon is the latest high-profile company to become victim of a cyber attack. A hacker gained access to a database containing the details of over 650,000 JD Wetherspoon customers. The database mainly contained names, dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers. The pub chain said in a statement that the hack occurred in June. It apologised to the customers affected and said that the data breach was related to an old website which it no longer uses. The company’s chief executive, John Hutson, received an anonymous email alerting him of the attack in November. However, the email wasn’t read – it was picked up by the company’s spam filter. The chain wasn’t aware of the attack until The Financial Times contacted them on Monday. Thankfully only a ‘tiny number of customers’ had information on their credit or debit cards stolen. It’s believed that the hacker only gained access to some pieces of financial information of around 100 customers. Source: http://marketbusinessnews.com/jd-wetherspoon-data-breach-exposed-details-of-over-650000-customers/114700
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