Security News > 2010 > January > For sale: Personal details of millions of Ladbrokes gamblers, offered to the MoS by a mysterious Australian
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245622/For-sale-Personal-details-millions-Ladbrokes-gamblers.html By Jason Lewis, Mail on Sunday Security Editor and Sandra White In Melbourne 24th January 2010 The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this newspaper was given the personal information of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers and offered access to its database of 4.5 million people in the UK and abroad. Last night we alerted Ladbrokes to the damaging security breach and handed the customer files to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Britain's data watchdog, which immediately began to investigate. The records include customers' home addresses, details of their gambling history, customer account numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses. Ladbrokes last night also called in the police and began contacting customers to reassure them that their credit card details, passwords and other financial information were safe. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org