Another data breach has been announced, this time at Wonga, the online payday lender. It is not clear what impact this breach will have, however customers are being advised to check their accounts and change the passwords.
More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm. The online lender said it was “urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access” to the personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland. It is understood that the breach could affect up to 270,000 current and former customers, including 245,000 in the UK. The company would not disclose where it had taken place. The lender became aware of a problem last week but did not realise until Friday that data could be accessed externally. It alerted the authorities and started to contact borrowers on Saturday to make them aware of the problem, and give details of a dedicated customer services phone line for those affected.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/09/wonga-data-breach-could-affect-250000-uk-customers
