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Virgin Media data breach exposes highly sensitive browsing data – Financial Times

  1. Virgin Media data breach exposes highly sensitive browsing data  Financial Times
  2. ​Virgin Media could face GDPR pressure after data breach  Compliance Week
  3. Virgin Media data breach affects 900000 people  BBC News
  4. Virgin Media data breach that exposes personal details of 900000 customers  The Independent
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Virgin Media left 900,000 consumers’ details exposed in unsecured database

One of the UK’s largest internet providers has admitted that it left a database containing the unencrypted details of more than 900,000 UK residents – including existing and potential customers – freely accessible to anybody on the internet, with no password required.

Exposed data included records which could have linked users to pornographic websites.

Graham Cluley