GB Foxtons 2013 Hacking (Q10960)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | GB Foxtons 2013 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2013
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Estate agent Foxtons is currently investigating a possible data breach, which may have resulted in the personal information of 10,000 customers being compromised. A list including the email addresses, usernames and passwords, many partially obscured, of alleged MyFoxtons users was posted on Pastebin and linked to on several security sites, but has now been removed. The list is still available elsewhere, reports PCPro.co.uk and Softpedia. We have been able to download the list of usernames and passwords that were posted and are currently running checks to determine its veracity, Foxtons said in an email to MyFoxtons users. Although the list doesnt contain financial information like credit card details, access to a users MyFoxtons account could allow a person access to their home address an (English)
