Bank details and email address revealed by company

Aylesbury_Duck

zaza14 wrote: »

I dunno.. I feel 6 weeks is enough time for a person/group of individuals to obtain finance and company info from companies house, and calculate/assess the area and pick up on working habits etc to then plan to break in. My car was only delivered to my work place-it doesn't stay there.

Possibly, but that's only speculation and something for which you have no evidence.

davidmcn

zaza14 wrote: »

It's not about someone waiting.. one obviously hopes that when their info is released without their consent, nothing bad happens. but someone, when presented with information that they weren't meant to see, could take advantage of the situation and surely pass this on to others, if they don't act upon the information themselves..

It's not at all clear to us how this information relates to the break-in.

LilElvis

zaza14 wrote: »

It's not about someone waiting.. one obviously hopes that when their info is released without their consent, nothing bad happens. but someone, when presented with information that they weren't meant to see, could take advantage of the situation and surely pass this on to others, if they don't act upon the information themselves..

Far easier for burglars just to drive down a residential street in a decent area and check out what pickings they think they will achieve by breaking in. Drive down my road and they would see lots of Mercedes parked on drives - and Audis, BMWs, Range Rovers, which by your logic is an indicator of wealth. And myself and my neighbours all have monitored alarms to deter them.

steampowered

It does seem incredibly unlikely that the data breach had anything to do with a break-in.

An address by itself is pretty useless to burglars. Breaking into somewhere just because you have a random address is no different to breaking into a random house on the street.

An address is only useful information to a crook if they are told e.g. that the house will be empty on a particular date, there is some very valuable jewellery there etc.

rach_k

I think you're being really unfair to the person who received the email. They were helpful enough to reply saying it wasn't for them, when they received it through no fault of their own, and now you're accusing them of being a criminal because you're paranoid? How would you feel if it happened to you - you received an email for somebody else and then you're being reported to the Police as a suspect in a crime? It's ridiculous and irrational. If they were going to plan a robbery, they wouldn't reply acknowledging receipt, they'd pretend not to receive it.