Virgin Media data breach

fenlander_uk

Firstly, the data breach supposedly occurred sometime in the last year. It would be highly coincidental if there was a rash of scam calls the day after the breach became public knowledge.
Secondly, you might be interested in today's report in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/06/virgin-media-breach-allegedly-involved-!!!!!!-site-requests
Note "allegedly".

bob_a_builder

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/06/virgin_more_leak_details/

"As it turns out, the words "technical and product information" were doing an awful lot of heavy lifting. Turgensec's strategically worded statement stops short of accusing Virgin Media of outright lying, but it is still rather damning."

"Turgensec urged all Virgin Media customers who received a notice from the broadband provider to file a GDPR request for a full breakdown of what data of theirs was spilled. With 900,000 people affected, that tie up the ISP's legal team for a while."

volcanopete

I have had the email and intend to claim compensation as a result.I've contacted a couple of legal firms to see what sort of cut they will take so I am not taking the privacy breach lightly.

Shandy1963

I have had a couple of emails from no win no fee solicitors about the data breach, anybody got any views if it’s worth claiming? Ps. I have had my virgin media email hacked and various other related accounts during the breach.

Le_Kirk

Have you any quantifiable losses?

DoaM

She only responded to one of the threads ... the other two (inc. this one) have been overlooked.