![]() ![]() The bank also gave me the ‘standard’ advice: My bank was, unsurprisingly, very helpful and immediately cancelled the transactions and the card itself, luckily it was all on a Credit Card so no additional fuss. Luckily for me I received the notification via email and could check my bank details to see what was going on. What seemed to have happened is that my account had been compromised, I’m unclear if this was a simple brute force of the password or something larger scale. Once I’d decided that this wasn’t a strange and overly generous late Christmas present it was time to try and sort out the mess. Like all of us though I don’t always practice what I preach and this was brought home to me last night when I received an email notifying me that I’d purchased a couple of iPhone 6’s for nearly £1000 from Groupon. One of my responsibilities within the Council is creating and sharing advice regarding online security. ![]()
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