UK Sky Broadband customers database been hacked and published

snaps

Seems Sky have had their Broadband customer database hacked and its been published on the internet. Of course no mention of this on SKY News but its breaking on other news channels/media. Apparently theres a website where you enter a postcode and it shows the sky broadband customers name and postcode along with names of porn films. I have the website address but not sure if its right to publish. Sky have had these attacks/hacks coming a long time, Its about time they start reducing prices and giving customers a fair deal instead of grabbing them by the balls and charging them what they want.

Perhaps Sky have now met their match with all the latest techonolgy in ways of viewing their channels instead of straight hacks.

Commercial customers are also leaving in their droves now as its not worth paying such high prices to have their premium channels in pubs now for no real revenue in return

Dermo

snaps wrote: »

Seems Sky have had their Broadband customer database hacked and its been published on the internet. Of course no mention of this on SKY News but its breaking on other news channels/media. Apparently theres a website where you enter a postcode and it shows the sky broadband customers name and postcode along with names of porn films. I have the website address but not sure if its right to publish. Sky have had these attacks/hacks coming a long time, Its about time they start reducing prices and giving customers a fair deal instead of grabbing them by the balls and charging them what they want.

You had me until the bit in bold. What does sky having a database hacked have to do with them having high prices?

mike65

Someone a bit bitter methinks!

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/ddos-against-legal-firm-leads-to-leak-of-sky-broadband-customers-details-and-alleged-user-habits/article/179760/

Dymo

Every large organisation is a target, doesn't matter who it is

snaps

Dermo wrote: »

You had me until the bit in bold. What does sky having a database hacked have to do with them having high prices?

Well the latest technology in being to view their channels without paying is one thing.

Charging small pubs 160€ a week for Sky sports is very unfair. Football has gone from being the poor mans sport to the rich mans sport.

Its a shame innocent people have got caught in the crossfire. Hopefully they will get the biggest fine possible for this leak.

Plus it Ironic that its the law firm responsible for tracking down and trying to prosucute file sharers for copyright infringemnt that has been at the center of the leak. Will be interesting how they try to defend themselves with this one.

Dermo

snaps wrote: »

Well the latest technology in being to view their channels without paying is one thing.

Charging small pubs 160€ a week for Sky sports is very unfair. Football has gone from being the poor mans sport to the rich mans sport.

Its a shame innocent people have got caught in the crossfire. Hopefully they will get the biggest fine possible for this leak.

yes I understand they are expensive. I agree, I don't subscribe to sky for this very reason. I was wondering what this has to do with their database being hacked.

and anyway, as mike65 posted above, it didn't happen through Sky it happened thanks to a DDOS attack on ACS:Law. Most probably outcome will be ACS:Law paying Sky not to sue them.

snaps

For me, Sky news website seems to be down?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/

mossym

sky news working fine. maybe they have decided as you dislike them so much you shouldn't use their service?

plus the lists of people are not innocent sky customers, they're people who were being investigated for illegal downloading. it wasn't innocent tv users

totally agree on the privacy thing, but like the poster above have no idea how you can link this to sky being too expensive(which they are, no arguement). some of these customers may not even have sky for tv, just broadband?

watty

I thought
1) It wasn't a hack
2) Not actually Sky but ACS:Law that exposed the data?
3) It was the Sky Broadband customers being investigated for illegal file-sharing. Not Satellite, so this all should be in Broadband forum

According to several people involved, the records now available on filesharing networks were exposed in directories on the ACS:Law website front page, apparently as part of blundering efforts to bring it back online. While individuals whose alleged pornography downloading has been published to the world, along with their home addresses, may not thank 4chan, there was no "hack" involved.

"The question we will be asking is how secure was this information and how it was so easily accessed from outside," said Christopher Graham this morning.

"We'll be asking about the adequacy of encryption, the firewall, the training of staff and why that information was so public facing," he added.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/acs_ico/