20 April 2007
It has emerged that in 2005, personal details of over 100,000 Bulldog Broadband customers were stolen.
Bulldog was under the ownership of Cable & Wireless at the time but has since been taken over by Pipex. Cable & Wireless has pledged to investigate the security breach.
James Brown, Managing Director of Bulldog Internet, told The Guardian newspaper: "Our understanding is that, following an external enquiry by Cable & Wireless, it has become apparent that at some point in December 2005, Cable & Wireless had some of their customer contact details illegally obtained by a third party. This resulted in a small number of their customers receiving unsolicited calls."
While it hasn't been made clear exactly what details were "illegally obtained", although one of the affected consumers has apparently contacted The Guardian since and told them that the details included credit card and bank account details.
Despite this, a Cable & Wireless spokesperson insisted that none of the 100,000 customers had experienced their cards or accounts being accessed or used illegally.
"We are already taking appropriate legal action against the third parties that we believe may be responsible for this unauthorised use of our customer data," she added.
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