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Gallivanter
24 Jan 10 09:14
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The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday.

The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this newspaper was given the personal information of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers and offered access to its database of 4.5 million people in the UK and abroad.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245622/For-sale-Personal-details-millions-Ladbrokes-gamblers.html#ixzz0dWVxcVNX
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Report Mully • January 24, 2010 9:18 AM GMT
I've often wondered how many email addresses get "lifted" from these bookmaker sites and passed onto spammers trying to flog their personal tips. I've never had so much spam in recent times, and in the main the only place they could have obtained my email is from such sites.
Report pingy • January 24, 2010 9:51 AM GMT
Agree with what you say Mully.
Report aceofspades • January 24, 2010 10:44 AM GMT
Have suspected it for sometime myself too mully: brand new email accounts only used for bookmakers start receiving all sorts of tipping/system rubbish in my experience
Report Mully • January 24, 2010 10:50 AM GMT
aceofspades-spot on! Like you say, brand new email addresses that you create purely for those purposes are spammed by Joe Bloggs.
Report birch2 • January 25, 2010 11:35 AM GMT
A typical PR statement in th RP today

'Importantly, this does not affect customer passwords or banking data'

Can I ask the PR man, if you didnt know the other personal details had been lifted, how do you know the above is 100% safe?
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