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Love that Wine giving out names and postcodes! (UPDATED)

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  • NoNameWoman
    NoNameWoman Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    The way the new profiles read is HILARIOUS :D

    This is seriously dreadful, I have had loads of marketing/spam texts that reduced my mobile credit to nought :mad::mad::mad: I just wish I could tell whether these
    got my details from this site.

    Thanks for the alert, and thanks to korky and one-eye who posted this elsewhere.....
  • nan64
    nan64 Posts: 274 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    I am absolutely apalled by this!!!! They have seriously breached the Data Protection Act giving access to such private information - I wonder how long this has been online - can't remember if I joined this one or not - this is just too incredible!!!!
  • Mips
    Mips Posts: 19,796 Forumite
    I stumbled across googling for wins :eek:
    :cool:
  • Moxy
    Moxy Posts: 15 Forumite
    glad that you did. people can steal your identity with less information. so worrying
  • fire**fly
    fire**fly Posts: 148,056 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    nan64 wrote: »
    I am absolutely apalled by this!!!! They have seriously breached the Data Protection Act giving access to such private information - I wonder how long this has been online - can't remember if I joined this one or not - this is just too incredible!!!!

    if you entered any of these comps you proberly did join

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?searchid=82900621

    .
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • Mips
    Mips Posts: 19,796 Forumite
    if you entered any of these comps you proberly did join

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?searchid=82900621

    .

    I feel sorry for the guys I have in my screenshots - full address/DOB details.
    :cool:
  • NoNameWoman
    NoNameWoman Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    Yes, I was looking for my profile manually and it seems that there's still a lot of genuine details there :eek::eek: it's really scary!
  • Mips
    Mips Posts: 19,796 Forumite
    Yes, I was looking for my profile manually and it seems that there's still a lot of genuine details there :eek::eek: it's really scary!


    Indeed - the ICO recommends complaining to the company first which I have done and if they remove it I think that will be the end of it - if not, they can be fined.

    I don't know how they can remove it from googlecache though?! Google surely can though.
    :cool:
  • fire**fly
    fire**fly Posts: 148,056 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Dippychick wrote: »
    I feel sorry for the guys I have in my screenshots - full address/DOB details.


    have seen lots of my friends details on it so have been emailing/pm'ing them to let them know, hopefully we're all doing the same


    The way the new profiles read is HILARIOUS :D

    This is seriously dreadful, I have had loads of marketing/spam texts that reduced my mobile credit to nought :mad::mad::mad: I just wish I could tell whether these
    got my details from this site.

    Thanks for the alert, and thanks to korky and one-eye who posted this elsewhere.....


    wouldn't be at all surprised if that's how they got your details NNW :( sad peeps that make others unhappy by doing things like that :sad:
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • mandi
    mandi Posts: 11,932 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Stoptober Survivor
    Moxy wrote: »
    My full address, name, postcode, mobile number and username is on google cache now. I am so upset, I don't know what to do! Please help!

    Hi Moxy

    Please read my post 52 :)
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