Tiscali Exposes Customer Details
Posted: 26th Sep, 2005 By: MarkJ
Tiscali UK has suffered a lapse in security after personal details from an unknown number of the ISP's customers were exposed on its website:
The UK ISP sent out an email to its customers to accompany the launch of new broadband products offering them the opportunity to re-grade their current service package.
Clicking on a link in the email took subscribers to the re-grade login page on Tiscali's website. But after subscribers logged into their accounts they were presented with someone else's details. Subsequent attempts to login produced someone else's details each time, Reg readers inform us. "There was a scripting error with the site, which we took offline and fixed. The service has now been restored," a Tiscali spokeswoman explained.
The problem occurred on Friday 23rd September and revealed names and addresses, yet financial details remained secure.
The UK ISP sent out an email to its customers to accompany the launch of new broadband products offering them the opportunity to re-grade their current service package.
Clicking on a link in the email took subscribers to the re-grade login page on Tiscali's website. But after subscribers logged into their accounts they were presented with someone else's details. Subsequent attempts to login produced someone else's details each time, Reg readers inform us. "There was a scripting error with the site, which we took offline and fixed. The service has now been restored," a Tiscali spokeswoman explained.
The problem occurred on Friday 23rd September and revealed names and addresses, yet financial details remained secure.
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