Wetherspoon's customers data stolen

[darael]

First Talktalk, now Wetherspoon - who's next?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35002951

JD Wetherspoon pub chain warns customers of 'hack'

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon says card data of 100 customers has been stolen from a database after it was hacked.

"Very limited" credit and debit card information was accessed in the hack in June and it could not be used for fraud, the company said.

Other personal details, including names and email addresses may also have been stolen from more than 650,000 people.

The Information Commissioner's Office is being notified of the breach, which only came to light in recent days.

The database had details - including names, dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers - of 656,723 customers.

The 100 affected whose card data was stolen had bought Wetherspoon vouchers online between January 2009 and August 2014, the company said.

 

[godinman]

I don't care.

 

[Diddums]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

 

[Sliver]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

lol

 

[neoboy]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

 

[Cyanide]

Makes my job selling cyber crime insurance a lot easier

 

[Amp34]

The 100 affected whose card data was stolen had bought Wetherspoon vouchers online between January 2009 and August 2014, the company said.

The online vouchers were obviously very popular...

 

[MooMoo444]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

Gotta get mum and deal with Phillip first

 

[antijoke]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

 

[Diddums]

First Talktalk, now Wetherspoon - who's next?

Habib's Chicken & Kebabs on the corner of fifth and Montgomery

 

[kayomani]

Evidently they don't sell many vouchers

 

[Cosimo]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

Arfur, you can buy the first round.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Evidently they don't sell many vouchers

Lol didn't even know they existed!

The 600,000+ e-mails and stuff was probably people who signed up to their wifi stuff.

Restaurants/pubs/bars normally don't and shouldn't store any credit card data that can be used to make fraudulent payments..

 

[Amp34]

Lol didn't even know they existed!

The 600,000+ e-mails and stuff was probably people who signed up to their wifi stuff.

Restaurants/pubs/bars normally don't and shouldn't store any credit card data that can be used to make fraudulent payments..

Moral of the story, never use proper email or other personal details for that stuff.

The UK is jut about the only country that insists on all that rubbish anyway.

 

[neoboy]

That's why I have an email purely dedicated to signing up for stuff like that which I never actually use.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Won't be any cash to take from those accounts anyway, always spent on the last pint.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Moral of the story, never use proper email or other personal details for that stuff.

The UK is jut about the only country that insists on all that rubbish anyway.

Yup, its just silly. Account details get sold at 1p per address and name and details get passed around from place to place and trade it back. You can request for a company to remove your data but if they have passed it on already, then it wont do much.

My registering name is the same name i choose for the main character when i play a mess about open world rpg, Michael Fassbender.

 

[supergluechris]

I suggest we all go to the Winchester for a pint whilst this blows over.

You're welcome any time to Winchester

 

[joey1211]

Arfur, you can buy the first round.

I thought it was a Minder reference aswell.

 

[Caged]

The Wi-Fi is run by The Cloud so I'm not sure that is the source of this. Hotspot signups don't ask for dates of birth AFAIK.