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The Your Lawyers Virgin Media data breach compensation action has featured in the news as we strive to raise awareness of this important case.
As featured in The Sun today, PORN COCK-UP Virgin Media faces £4.5billion fine after exposing customers’ PORN searches, the 900,000 victims of the breach could be entitled to claim an estimated £5,000 in compensation. This could mean a total claim pay-out in the sum of a staggering £4.5bn.
As a leading consumer action and data breach compensation firm, we were contacted by concerned victims asking for our help when news broke about the breach. Since then, we’ve taken forward No Win, No Fee claims and formally launched our legal action for justice.
Am I affected by the Virgin Media data breach? With the information for a monumental 900,000 customers exposed, this is a popular question right now.
Any data breach can be daunting, but when news of a new leak or hack hits the headlines and it’s a company you do business with, it’s worrying. Key data protection legislation puts an important duty on organisations to inform victims of a breach, and victims should be informed as soon as possible, and within the legal time frame for doing so.
For those who are affected by this cybersecurity incident, we’ve launched a compensation action for victims. If you’re affected, we can help you.
We’ve made the process for victims to sign-up for the Virgin Media data breach compensation action nice and easy, so here’s a handy guide for what you need to do.
With around 900,000 victims in the UK, and with the data for over a thousand of them reported to be potentially linked to explicit content, this is a significant breach. Data had been left exposed for 10 months, and there has been at least one access event by an unknown third-party. We can’t know for certain what has happened to the exposed information, but the risk that it could be used for malicious purposes is very real.
Here’s how we can help you.
It has been reported that, in some cases, the recently discovered Virgin Media breach links customers to porn.
This is because the breach is understood to have contained information about customer requests to unblock access to certain websites, according to the BBC. The database is said to contain details about an online form used by over a thousand customers who had asked for particular websites to be blocked or unblocked.
This worrying revelation is an additional cause for concern in what we already believe to be a particularly worrying and avoidable data breach event.
We’ve launched our compensation action for victims of the Virgin Media cybersecurity incident that hit the headlines last week. If you’ve been affected, here’s what you need to know.
We’re representing claimants on a No Win, No Fee basis for claims having been contacted for help when news of the data breach broke last week. We believe that victims can be entitled to claim, and we believe that we can succeed with a legal action, which is why we have launched legal cases.
Victims should be informed by Virgin Media if their information has been exposed in the data leak. If you’ve received a breach notification email, we may be able to help you.
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