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Old Sep 10, 2018, 4:36 am
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DYKWIA
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Originally Posted by subject2load
My apologies if this particular piece was previously linked at some point, in what has soon become a very lengthy thread :

the Telegraph highlights the fact that BA was warned as to its vulnerability to hacking, in the wake of its failure, last year, to meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...le-data-hacks/
From that report :-

​"Furious British Airways customers have been left having to cancel their credit cards with many reporting they had money taken from their accounts and rogue direct debits set up in their names.​​​​​"

How is that possible? Were bank account details also stolen? Or just sloppy reporting?
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