Compensation for malicious email data breaches

Victims of malicious email data breaches could be entitled to claim compensation on a No Win, No Fee basis, and this is a factor that can be linked to the Virgin Media data leak.

We continue to represent thousands of people who are taking part in our Virgin Media group action for compensation. If you have yet to start your case, you can find out if you are still in time to pursue your claim by completing a few forms on our website here now.

Claiming compensation for malicious email data breaches

You could be entitled to claim compensation for malicious email data breaches where your personal information has been misused or exposed as a result of this kind of event. There can be a few ways in which malicious email data breaches can take place. This can include you being targeted by phishing emails, or targeted by contact where the scammers are passing themselves off as someone you know, or as a real company.

Malicious email data breaches can be simple to take place because they can arise from nothing but personal contact information being exposed in a leak, breach or hack. All it takes is for your email address to be compromised in some form of data breach and scammers could use this to then target people to commit fraud and theft.

Unfortunately, we live in a day and age where we are constantly being bombarded with scam and spam emails. Everyone needs to be very wary and needs to take care when receiving emails, particularly when they link you to log into websites or where they ask you to reply with personal information.

How this can link to the Virgin Media data leak

The issue of malicious email data breaches can link to the Virgin Media data leak because email addresses were included in the information that was exposed in this incident. The information was left exposed on an unencrypted database online for a period of 10 months, and we know that at least one unknown third party was able to access the database during the breach period.

What this means is that the email addresses of some 900,000 people may have been passed around or may have been misused by cybercriminals who came across the data. They could then use this information to contact people and pass themselves off as legitimate companies, including Virgin Media themselves, and they may even try to contact people under the guise of the data breach itself. There are many ways in which criminals can cleverly try to convince people to believe that they are legitimate representatives of an organisation, which is why people need to be so careful when this kind of information is exposed.

In the wake of a data breach, we often see organisations quickly state things like “no financial information” was affected or that “no significant personal details” were involved. The reality is that it only takes an email address for a scammer to be able to try to contact someone to dupe them into handing over more information.

Virgin Media Group Action: are you still in time to claim?

We have been representing thousands of people in our Virgin Media group action for several years now, all on a No Win, No Fee basis. If you have yet to start your claim, there are no guarantees we can help you. But you can complete a few forms on our website here to find out if you are still in time start a case here now.

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