Thousands of Tesco.com customer accounts suspended after hacker attack. More than 2,000 leaked usernames and passwords forced the retailer to suspend online shopping accounts...
Thousands of Tesco.com accounts compromised by leaked usernames and passwords leading to accounts being suspended.
Tesco's online customer accounts have been hacked and more than 2000 Tesco.com users passwords were posted online and forced to deactivate their accounts, the hackers were able to access customers details and Tesco voucher details on Thursday. “We take the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously and are urgently investigating these claims,” a Tesco spokesman said in a statement. It is believed to be hackers who have stolen details from other web servers and testing email and password combinations. “We have contacted all customers who may have been affected and are committed to ensuring that none of them miss out as a result of this. We will issue replacement vouchers to the very small number who are affected,” added the Tesco spokesman.
- 2000 Tesco.com users passwords were posted online.
- Tesco had to deactivate many users.
- Hackers Passwords and usernames were posted online on Thursday.
I think this is a major loss to the company and could take long to solve this problem as more than 2000 users were effected. The security levels in this situation could be considered as low as hackers were able to get into the system, this causes customers to worry as their personal details could be exposed therefore Tesco's had to deactivate users for safety. The hacking could take several weeks to get repaired as they have now lost online customers and some profit.
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