ICO 'making enquiries' into bizarre shopper data spill at M&S

  • 28 October 2015
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This is not a data breach, whatever it is we must've done it ourselves...

 
                                     


 
28 Oct 2015 at 10:20, Alexander J Martin
 
The Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into Marks & Spencer's website after customers complained that they were being presented with each others' personal details while shopping
 
Marks & Spencer made its website temporarily unavailable last night after what it claimed was "a technical issue".
 
The company's customers raised the alarm on social media sites Facebook and Twitter, claiming that they had been presented with other shoppers' sensitive information, including their names, phone numbers, card details and delivery addresses.
 
M&S has told The Register that no full financial information had been exposed during what they understood was a small period of time wherein customers may have seen a snapshot of one other customer's details.
 
It was notably not the same customer's details that shoppers were shown.
 
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This sounds like a first, must be very embarrassing for the company with this glitch on their web site.
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@Antus67 wrote:
This sounds like a first, must be very embarrassing for the company with this glitch on their web site.
It will be embarrassing for this company. M&S has always been the epitomy of everything that is good in Britain as regards shopping for clothes or food.

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