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14/06/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjll01220yeo

Wells Fargo has fired a number of workers, after reviewing claims of fake keyboard activity.

30/06/2023

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/save-your-my-photo-stream-pictures-before-apple-shuts-it-down

Here's how to save your My Photo Stream images

06/06/2022

This is why I don’t do screen replacement. Only Apple can guarantee against this

29/03/2020

Ref

14/01/2020

Get an update today

On Tuesday 14 Jan 2020, Microsoft will officially end updates and support for Windows 7 users will have to look for other options or suffer the consequences

20/12/2019

03/12/2018

Always call the sender, on a number that you know is correct, before you action anything. If you don’t know one go into a branch.

Holly-Rose Thomas was victim of a sophisticated scam in which she received texts that appeared to be from the same number as her bank's.

21/10/2018

18/09/2018

Jack Armstrong, 25, was conned by a fraudster appearing to call from a legitimate number belonging to his bank.

21/08/2018

From Currys PC World

On June 13, we began to contact a number of our customers as a precaution after we found that some of our security systems had been accessed in the past using sophisticated malware.

We promptly launched an investigation. Since then we have been putting further security measures in place to safeguard customer information, increased our investment in cyber security and added additional controls. In all of this we have been working intensively with leading cyber security experts.

Our investigation, which is now nearing completion, has identified that approximately 10 million records containing personal data may have been accessed in 2017. This unauthorised access to data may include personal information such as name, address, phone number, date of birth and email address.

While there is now evidence that some of this data may have left our systems, these records do not contain payment card or bank account details and we have no confirmed instances of customers falling victim to fraud as a result. We are continuing to keep the relevant authorities updated.

As a precaution, we are letting our customers know to apologise and advise them of protective steps to take to minimise the risk of fraud. These include:
• If you receive an unsolicited email, letter, text or phone call asking for personal information, never reveal any full passwords, login details or account numbers until you are certain of the identity of the person making the request. Please do not click on any links you do not recognise.
• If you think you have been a victim of fraud you should report it to Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud and internet crime reporting centre, on 0300 123 2040*.
• We also recommend that people are vigilant against any suspicious activity on their bank accounts and contact their financial provider if they have concerns.
• You can find more information here

We take the security of your data extremely seriously and have previously announced that we have taken action to close off this access and have no evidence it is continuing. Nevertheless, we felt it was important to let customers know as soon as possible.

We continue to make improvements and investments to our security systems and we’ve been working round the clock to put this right. We’re extremely sorry about what has happened – we’ve fallen short here. We want to reassure you that we are fully committed to protecting your data so that you can be confident that it is safe with us.

Yours sincerely,

Antreas Athanassopoulos
Dixons Carphone Chief Customer Officer