Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Money_Grabber13579

HonestJohn said:

I think some people have been taken in by Spectos understating the seriousness of this breach

On the flip side, most of that data will already be out there anyway as a result of previous data breaches (unless Spectos was the only company who you’ve ever given this data to, which seems unlikely).

It doesn’t excuse the fact it has happened or mean that companies shouldn’t be more careful with our data, but we should all have been on our guard against fraud attempts using our data before this breach anyway.

adamp87

skyeblue said:

beanielou said:

HonestJohn said:

MABLE said:

HonestJohn said:

I would think that it is a bit early to say that no misuse of your data has happened.
Be proactive. Look out for any by registering with one of the free credit reference agencies.

This has happened to me before and it was not until about 6 months later the affects started to show.  Well I hope Spectos are heavily find further carelessness.

I think we deserve some compensation too. Be lucky to get a set of Christmas stamps though.

More likely to be chucked off the panel as data has leaked. 

Why should we get any compensation? We are unaffected, the site was down for 1 week, but business carries on as usual. If anyone thinks they are at risk, the best thing to do is install efficient systems such as Malwarebytes.

What has Malwarebytes got to do with someone potentially using your number or data somewhere for something?

HonestJohn

adamp87 said:

skyeblue said:

beanielou said:

HonestJohn said:

MABLE said:

HonestJohn said:

I would think that it is a bit early to say that no misuse of your data has happened.
Be proactive. Look out for any by registering with one of the free credit reference agencies.

This has happened to me before and it was not until about 6 months later the affects started to show.  Well I hope Spectos are heavily find further carelessness.

I think we deserve some compensation too. Be lucky to get a set of Christmas stamps though.

More likely to be chucked off the panel as data has leaked. 

Why should we get any compensation? We are unaffected, the site was down for 1 week, but business carries on as usual. If anyone thinks they are at risk, the best thing to do is install efficient systems such as Malwarebytes.

What has Malwarebytes got to do with someone potentially using your number or data somewhere for something?

Maybe Spectos should have used it? 

mrbanjo

HonestJohn said:

I think some people have been taken in by Spectos understating the seriousness of this breach

Some people are very naive. They get a few stamps and a voucher once in a while but are utterly oblivious and don't care about where their data ends up. The number of cold calls i've received since that breach, along with the increase in spam emails can't be a coincidence. 

t0rt0ise

Has anyone posted the day before because the last posting time is ridiculously early? Are we allowed to do that?

HonestJohn

Yes. A previous poster did and said the app allows for it now.

t0rt0ise

HonestJohn said:

Yes. A previous poster did and said the app allows for it now.

Thank you. I think I will try it today.

catsitter

If you get what seems to be junk mail from the People's Postcode Lottery, make sure to open it because it could be for Mailagents. Luckily I could feel it had the transponder inside, but if they ran out of transponders again I would probably have put it straight into the recycling without opening it.

savergrant

catsitter said:

If you get what seems to be junk mail from the People's Postcode Lottery, make sure to open it because it could be for Mailagents. Luckily I could feel it had the transponder inside, but if they ran out of transponders again I would probably have put it straight into the recycling without opening it.

I thought you were going to say you'd won a fortune! Most of the stuff I get from postcode lottery is unaddressed though, whereas this must have been addressed to you as the panellist?

catsitter

savergrant said:

catsitter said:

If you get what seems to be junk mail from the People's Postcode Lottery, make sure to open it because it could be for Mailagents. Luckily I could feel it had the transponder inside, but if they ran out of transponders again I would probably have put it straight into the recycling without opening it.

I thought you were going to say you'd won a fortune! Most of the stuff I get from postcode lottery is unaddressed though, whereas this must have been addressed to you as the panellist?

Yes, it was addressed to me but I thought they could have got my name from the electoral register.