Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

girlchops · 2 April at 7:05PM

And they worry about us keeping our identities safe!!

Chrisv said:

Email from Spectos

We would like to inform you about an ongoing security incident at Spectos GmbH. Our company has been the target of a cyber attack since March 29, 2025.

Despite extensive countermeasures, the attack has not yet been fully repelled. Our systems are currently unavailable.

We are working at full speed to secure and restore the affected areas - together with external IT security specialists and the responsible authorities.

Any items you need to send or enter as received today and the coming days, please make a note of the time, date and locations, and you can enter them later when we let you know the system is back up and running.

Any items that you need to enter as sent today will be recorded as Mobile Verified to ensure your prize draw eligibility is not affected.

We will keep you informed of all relevant developments.

We thank you for your understanding and patience in this extraordinary situation and are doing everything we can to overcome the cyber attack as quickly as possible.

For all their failings i don't recall a data breach ever happening with Kantar. IIRC isn't there a connection between the ownership of Spectos and YOUGOV.com or have i imagined that?
If there is maybe that makes it a higher profile target because YouGov is owned by an ex Tory MP

HonestJohn · 2 April at 7:16PM

Somebody out there could have your personal contact details, so BEWARE.

mr662 · 2 April at 7:47PM

Get ready for incoming bombardment of random phone calls and texts. For those not so tech savvy, if you don't recognise the number and even if the phone seems to come from a company asking personal info or anything like that hang up. If it's like a bank or something call them back using a different number not back on the same number that the call came from.

Be careful. Happens round the world daily and personal data will definitely have been leaked and shared. Luckily for us least no financial info is held about us by the useless Spectos.