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Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

VileReynard
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Yes - have you noticed that ACS:LAW claim that the size of this rubbish is 0MB?

"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."

foxtrck
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

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Yes - have you noticed that ACS:LAW claim that the size of this rubbish is 0MB?

Because they are looking at their now empty root directory  Grin
HPsauce
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

RCJ live on BBC lunchtime news now!
PN referred to, and Sky.
VileReynard
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418970
Quite hard to find but it says
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The UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) has told the BBC that the firm behind a leak of thousands of Sky broadband customers' personal data could face a fine of half a million pounds.

Grin Grin Grin

"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."

zubel
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Quote from: foxtrck
EDIT: I dont believe this should be removed, PN are obviously covering their backs by misinforming people, the people affected here need to be able to be able to make their own judgement on what has happened instead of carefully worded PN legal nonsence.

Moderators Note
The moderators are removing the links, not Plusnet.
Removing links to the entire dataset that was potentially illegally obtained is a decision we have taken.  The information is readily available via search engines if you are that keen on finding it.
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418970
Quite hard to find but it says
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The UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) has told the BBC that the firm behind a leak of thousands of Sky broadband customers' personal data could face a fine of half a million pounds.


Frankly that is nowhere near enough.
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foxtrck
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Quote from: A
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418970
Quite hard to find but it says
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The UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) has told the BBC that the firm behind a leak of thousands of Sky broadband customers' personal data could face a fine of half a million pounds.

Grin Grin Grin


Thats nothing for Andrew Crossley! He's just bought a ferrari don't you know.
Dom
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Quote from: adiewoo
Frankly that is nowhere near enough.

Perhaps it'll be £500,000 per infringement. How many emails were leaked?...  Tongue Tongue
Moose666
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Quote from: foxtrck
No emails or phone numbers given in sheet.

I have downloaded the email archive and uudecoded all the emails.
The file PLUSNET_133_complete-CHECKED.xls has the names and addresses of 134 PlusNet customers, and the name of the hardcore pornography they have downloaded.
The file Plusnet_Ltd-200-(07-01-2010 - 10-03-2010) (Revised).xls has a list of 844 downloads of the file "VA - Clubland 16 (2009)" and the IP addresses but no personal details.
The file Plusnet Letter_09_08_2010_DB.doc is a letter from an ACS solicitor to BT referring amongst other things to PlusNet's failure to diclose certain information. It mentions posts on the PlusNet community board.
In total there are 5 files with PlusNet in their names and 13 files which refer to PlusNet.
This is shocking.
jelv
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Seen a reference to this elsewhere:
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About Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.
<snip>
Schneier is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT.  

He has written a book called E-Mail Security.

[quote=http://www.schneier.com/book-email.html]E-Mail Security is out of print, but I have a few copies available for $10 to U.S. addresses and $20 to non-U.S. addresses. Both prices include shipping. To order the books, please use these PayPal links:
U.S. ($10) non-U.S. ($20)
If you'd like the book signed to anyone in particular, be sure to specify that in a comment in the PayPal order.
It has been suggested that a copy is sent to Prakash Mistry
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foxtrck
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

We could use ANDREW CROSSLEY'S paypal details to buy him one, as they are fully available in the downloaded emails! These guys are cowboys and know nothing of IT security
Alxns
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Hmm i wonder if im on this list
i have people looking for me
anyone pm the link please.
jelv
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

Check your contact address in your PN account details. If you haven't received an email to that address you are not in the list supplied by Plusnet.
If were previously a Sky user you will need to check the list or contact Sky.
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foxtrck
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

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Hmm i wonder if im on this list
i have people looking for me
anyone pm the link please.

I tried to but the link is removed, just search "ACS Law leak" and a word that rhymes with warrant
Oldjim
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Re: Plusnet will give your personal details to ACS Law with not informing you!!

You could also look at closed tickets on your account as I would assume it would be there