Scammers often use information gathered from phishing websites to gain your trust in follow-up phone calls and they can fake the caller ID to make it seem like the real thing."
We are extremely sorry that there was a loophole in the Alert System
We are sincerely sorry for any distress caused to all our registered members due to this unusual risk of a leak taking place
We are aware of an incident on the Neighbourhood Alert system and we understand that the Action Fraud alerts were not affected by this issue.
Fraud is a terrible crime that impacts victims both financially and psychologically, undermining our collective trust in others and the online services on which we all rely
You are more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime
Stay safe and good spamming.”
This was not a security breach of LSEG/our systems. The incident involves a third party’s data set, which includes a copy of the World-Check data file. This was illegally obtained from the third party’s system. We are liaising with the affected third party, to ensure our data is protected and ensuring that any appropriate authorities are notified.”
Technology is enabling crime to be delivered at scale in an almost industrial fashion."
Unless we build a network to defeat a criminal network, we are going to be overwhelmed."
We’ve managed to infiltrate this service so we could see those responsible for it and the scale of the operation.”