{"id":1167,"date":"2017-04-11T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:48:01","slug":"wonga-customers-victims-serious-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/wonga-customers-victims-serious-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"Customers of “pay day loan firm” Wonga victims of serious data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around 270,000 customers of “pay day loan firm” Wonga have had their personal information accessed after hackers broke in to the loan company’s customer database.<\/p>\n

The company said they\u2019re looking into the incident and are “urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access to the personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland”.<\/p>\n

With data like bank details and other personal information accessed, customers may now be at serious risk of financial losses, as well as further breaches and serious distress.
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The biggest UK data breach involving financial information?<\/h2>\n

Professor Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey, believes this may be the biggest data breach in the UK where financial information was stolen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Given that Wonga’s business is to provide people with short-term loans, many of the victims of the breach may already be financially vulnerable, and this data breach may cause further financial problems and distress.<\/p>\n

Information stolen from Wonga customers<\/h3>\n

The information believed to have been accessed includes:<\/p>\n