Ticketmaster data breach

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Originally Posted by drillerpie

What's wrong with inequitable?

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My brain :( The BBC statement used the word "illegable".

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Originally Posted by LincsPie

What makes you think that I think the electoral roll is secure? Just wondering why people don't opt out of the open register which anyone can buy. I'm talking about not leaving the door wide open to your personal info, but at least closing the front door even if it's not Fort Knox.

The open register electoral roll is an easy source to start building up a data picture. Ditto not going ex-dirctory in BT's online/paper phone directory (yes we got one this year!).

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Indeed a healthy scepticism of IT security is to be commended. But even with all the will in the world I fear we, the consumer/public, are being forced to put our data on-line, purchases, council tax, medical, property etc and bad actors with AI will more readily be able to analyse patterns and build profiles. Recently I learnt that you can check a vehicle now for car insurance.

I had to point out to an IT naive friend that putting an extremely good photo on Farcebook and including her real DOB was not a clever idea however attractive she is. For anything that doesn't really need to know my age/dob I have an "internet" dob. Probably pointless but any correspondence that I bin has my name/address removed.

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Originally Posted by Old_pie

My brain :( The BBC statement used the word "illegable".

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To say illegible? Yikes. Having people who know how to spell is probably considered discriminatory. That's not even a joke, sadly.

On the subject of hacking, an auction house I use occasionally to put lowball offers on lots that seem to have gone under the radar (they always end up on the radar and I don't get them) wrote to me last week to tell me I was hacked and the proof of identity data I had to provide was stolen. They had pretty much everything you can imagine, including passport scans.

My compensation? A year's subscription to a service that monitors the dark web so I'll know when my data gets put up for sale, and a 'we're very sorry'. Nice.

Reading all this, I'm getting a bit concerned that the £500 I sent off to claim my £2 million Nigerian lottery win might be a scam.

Then again, it could just be Royal Mail taking an age to deliver the cheque.

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Reading all this, I'm getting a bit concerned that the £500 I sent off to claim my £2 million Nigerian lottery win might be a scam.

Then again, it could just be Royal Mail taking an age to deliver the cheque.

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It’s real mate. I’ve won too, so has my sister. The Nigerian prince himself has emailed me.

I think he works for BBC though as his speeling is pore.

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Reading all this, I'm getting a bit concerned that the £500 I sent off to claim my £2 million Nigerian lottery win might be a scam.

Then again, it could just be Royal Mail taking an age to deliver the cheque.

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I think you'll find they'll soon be asking for another £250 to expedite the payment plus your bank details as Royal Mail are undergoing radical reorganisation creating chaos as they become Czech Mail.

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Originally Posted by Old_pie

I think you'll find they'll soon be asking for another £250 to expedite the payment plus your bank details as Royal Mail are undergoing radical reorganisation creating chaos as they become Czech Mail.

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Perhaps we can all send the Prince bouncing Czechs?

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Originally Posted by SmiffyPie

I would genuinely love to know of a straightforward, honest and impartial news source, they all have their agenda.

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The FT is extremely good (if not always "straightforward"). Their readers need honest impartiality to make money.

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Originally Posted by SwalePie

Perhaps we can all send the Prince bouncing Czechs?

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Originally Posted by Old_pie

.....For anything that doesn't really need to know my age/dob I have an "internet" dob. Probably pointless but any correspondence that I bin has my name/address removed.

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Old - do both of these too! Great minds... etc. My TV guilty secret on my day off is watching BBC Scam Interceptors before I have to do the list of jobs I've been given, but I do wonder legally how they're allowed to intercept the phone/web traffic even though a scam is being perpetrated.

After the paper recycling had been done in our street the other week, random bits of paper were blowing down the street, one of them was a bank letter - name, address, NI number, account number, interest earnt for the year!