DivideBuy Compromised

Unfortunately, I am writing to you to let you know that earlier this week we discovered that DivideBuy and its customers (including you) have been the victims of a cyber incident, which involved some of your personal data being accessed. I wanted to write to you as soon as I could, to let you know what we have discovered so far, and how we are going to protect you against any consequences of this attack.

Details of the Data Breach

In the last few days, since becoming aware of the incident, we have been working hard, together with external specialists, to make sure that all data is secure and that an attack of this kind cannot happen again.

We have also established that within the information that was accessed it may be possible to identify:

Name Date of Birth Address Telephone Number Email address Associated Alias

Although some credit report information was also contained within the material that was accessed, this was not stored in a readable format and so is not likely to be able to be used by the person or persons who accessed it.

Source: received an email from them earlier

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This is the third service provider in the last two years that got compromised, that I was using! I am getting sick of these incompetent companies not knowing or not caring how to do security properly! I thought I learned my lesson but I didn't. I guess I will just have to avoid everything that I can't purchase on Ebay or Amazon. I can't avoid risk, but I can minimise it.