The IT Nerd

Last year came news that Bell Canada was not only pwned by hackers, but they were the subject of an extortion attempt too. Well, it seems that they’ve been pwned again. They’ve sent a note out to affected customers which doesn’t say how many people were affected. But the word on the street is that the number is 100,000.

#Fail

The data that was accessed were names and email addresses. Credit card info wasn’t accessed. The telco suggests that customers change their passwords, and monitor their financial records for suspicious activity. On top of that, the telco has “additional security, authentication and identification requirements have been implemented” on affected accounts. But that’s cold comfort to Bell customers who look at this, and the previous pwnage and wonder if Bell takes the security of customer data seriously.

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