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Has anybody suffered an actual loss as a result of this hack yet?

Pete

You will find that yes they can - if they "sell or transfer" the business.


Take energy companies at present - they are failing, several every week. The customers and all their details are then being transferred from ABC Energy to XYZ Energy without and possibility for a customer to say no. How many ICO complaints have been upheld on any of those? Probably none.

Pete wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 4:42 pm Has anybody suffered an actual loss as a result of this hack yet?

Pete

What do you define as 'loss'?

Er, property broken in to, money, identity, guns, or anything else stolen as a sole consequence of the data theft from Gunstar...?

And you'll find that if you've ever bought anything online, all that stuff you filled in on the order form is out there somewhere......consumer data is a tradable commodity in these digital times....

Pete

Pete wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:54 pm Er, property broken in to, money, identity, guns, or anything else stolen as a sole consequence of the data theft from Gunstar...?

Err.....Guntrader

Good point.......if you're in the business, I can see that GT was a very useful shop window.....
I always get them mixed up

Pete

Pete wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 4:42 pm Has anybody suffered an actual loss as a result of this hack yet?

Pete

At least one address that was leaked was targetted: https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news ... ad-5854533

And the worry for those of us whose addresses we're in there is that we may be next. It's not a matter of "compo culture", if your name and address wasn't leaked it's easy to sneer and be all high and mighty. However, it's a genuine worry for many of us that we'll come home someday to find our houses ransacked or families attacked.

GT shouldn't have been hacked - that was criminal. But their reaction in trying to downplay the issue and blame those seeking redress is pretty unpalatable.

-daman

There was no mention at all in that article that the burglary was a result of the GT hack…

Pete wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:54 pm Er, property broken in to, money, identity, guns, or anything else stolen as a sole consequence of the data theft from Gunstar...?

And you'll find that if you've ever bought anything online, all that stuff you filled in on the order form is out there somewhere......consumer data is a tradable commodity in these digital times....

Pete

The only thing I've lost is peace of mind at this point in time, are you actually waiting for someone to be bungled and have their guns stolen before you come to the conclusion that GT f****d up and should be held accountable?

daman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:57 pm GT shouldn't have been hacked - that was criminal. But their reaction in trying to downplay the issue and blame those seeking redress is pretty unpalatable.

-daman

What about BA? Go away on holiday and come back to find your house ransacked becasue dates were in te data were stolen ... Has anyone managed to sue BA for that? Not as far as I know.



Actual losses fine, but not just on the off chance.