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Thursday, August 07, 2014

How Paddy Power gambled against its customers' security

A notice appeared on the Paddy Power corporate website at the end of last week, which confirmed details of a “historical data breach”. It boldly stated that no financial information or customer passwords were accessed during the breach, and a full investigation had revealed no adverse impact upon customer accounts. So that's cool then, right? Well not really, Paddy. The clue is in the use of the word 'historical' which could easily be replaced by hysterical were this actually not at all funny. You see, as IT Pro reported, the breach itself took place in 2010.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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