UK: Thousands of Brits Fall Victim to Data Theft
Graeme Wearden and Tom Espiner write on C|Net News:
British law enforcement agents are trying to contact thousands of U.K. computer users who have fallen victim to an massive personal data heist.More here.
The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that a computer seized in the U.S. had been found to contain personal information from around 2,300 PCs based in Britain. This included e-mail addresses, passwords, credit card numbers and details of online transactions.
According to the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit, the data was stolen via a piece of malicious software that was secretly installed on the victims' machines.
posted by Fergie @ 10/10/2006 11:52:00 AM
1 Comments:
The worst thing about this data breach is that police are trying to notify those affected, but recipients are mistaking legitimate emails for phishing scams.
British police should establish a way to gain recipients' trust that these emails are, in fact, coming from a trusted source... otherwise their kind efforts will be useless.
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