US Virgin Media Apr 2014 Technical Error (Q10448)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Virgin Media Apr 2014 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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April 2014
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Virgin Media forced to apologise for data breach after accidentally copying-in 130,000 customers into email Problem occurred when companys suppliers mistakenly sent out email When it was replied to was then sent to all the other people in the group Virgin Media insisted only small proportion of its customers affected But as many as 130,000 peoples email addresses were disclosed in error (English)
