Cybersecurity
Vodafone Says U.K. Customers Accounts Accessed by Hackers
- No customers' credit card or debit card numbers were taken
- Company is contacting about 1,800 customers who were affected
Vodafone said it noticed attempts to access customer account details between midnight on Wednesday and noon on Thursday, when it started an investigation.
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Vodafone Group Plc. said criminals accessed customer account details, including phone numbers and some bank details, in the second hacking attack in just over a week on a U.K. phone carrier.
The company is contacting about 1,800 affected customers, Vodafone said in a statement Saturday. The hackers accessed subscribers’ e-mail addresses and passwords through a third party and Newbury, England-based Vodafone’s own systems weren’t breached, the company said.