Wychwood Hacked

LadyMorticia

Did anyone else get an email from Wychwood about the site being hacked?

Not sure if I'm allowed to post the whole email here (and it's long!)

emiai

I had it too, the details they would have got can be obtained by most dodgy sites we have fell for in the past anyway.

I never access any kind of online billing from the same computer I use for comping just in case of Trojans or keyloggers.

I guess a little extra vigilance on clicking emails / spotting phishing spam wont hurt. x

Svenena

I haven't had it. What does it say?

Daphne01

Yes I had it too, changed my password just in case x

Edit: Received it again today for some reason

Daphne01

Svenena wrote: »

I haven't had it. What does it say?

This is the first half of it

Dear Customer,
We are writing to you because you have registered with the www.wychwood.co.uk website which is owned by Marston's PLC.
We are writing to inform you that we have discovered that the database was the subject of a recent hacking attack, to let you know what we have done and are doing about it, and to give you advice on protecting yourself going forward. We also want to apologise for any concern and inconvenience this may cause you.
What happened
Our hosting partner, Digital Junkie, received a report from one person on the database that he had, on 30 September 2013, received a phishing email purporting to come from HSBC Bank, asking him to download a document in order to verify irregular activity in his bank account. It was sent to him at an email address he used only on the Wychwood site.
We and Digital Junkie immediately began investigations and it became apparent that the parts of the database were accessed by hackers on 28 September 2013.
The information hacked includes –
· The name and contact details you provided to the site when you signed up.
· An analysis of your loyalty to Hobgoblin.
· Your log in details.
· Details of the frequency at which you log into the site.
· Your date of birth, if you provided it to us.

The hackers also took about 3% of the passwords on the database.However,all passwords were protected by methods that would have meant the hackers were not able to decrypt them.

Freydis

No i've not had it, it sounds like spam.

sheils6

I have had this sent to an old email address that I haven't used with Wychwood or if I have it was a few years ago. I haven't had one sent to my current email address which I have been using with Wychwood which seems strange.

Mummyof2boys

I haven't received it either?

Freydis

I received the email this morning on my old email address i used last year, nothing on the one i used this year though? Odd

carol_money_saving_newbie

I had this as well but it went straight into my spam folder. I havn't been on Wychwood for a while but have enter the comp in the last week. I wasn't sure what to think but it seems odd that people are getting it to old addresses.

mclarkie

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