DON'T place an order for Sky broadband right now!

I did yesterday and I have just had an e-mail saying that the third party I agreed to Sky using for my info has leaked it!. They say they have tightened things up but that's my trust with Sky totally smashed!

So wanting to warn others!

This might not be bad to some, but to me it's really bad!

https://s1.postimg.org/jk8ujapm7/Screen_Shot_2017-04...

Sue them!

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Sue them!

I can't for that, can I? I have reported them to the ICO, which I know I can do. And I have cancelled the order I had placed.

Lol

In reply to a post by professor973:

Lol

A bit pointless, but happy Easter?

This is the problem these days, i can understand why a mate of mine do not bother with the internet or any type of online thing. But as I said to him it could still affect him because his info is still stored on databases, his energy company, water company, the company he works for stores the info all in databases that can be hacked.
the only way out of it is to drop out of society and go and live in a cave somewhere../

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

This is the problem these days, i can understand why a mate of mine do not bother with the internet or any type of online thing. But as I said to him it could still affect him because his info is still stored on databases, his energy company, water company, the company he works for stores the info all in databases that can be hacked.
the only way out of it is to drop out of society and go and live in a cave somewhere../

Even that does not really help. I know someone who did that - sold up and moved to somewhere sunny, he lives in a self made shack somewhere remote, he has internet and power but it's all on a Solar system, so if he does not have enough then he can't use it. But he seems to do okay.

As far as the state is concerned, he HAS vanished. I don't know the finer details, but I do know he is very happy living this way - I get an e-mail from him maybe once a week.

I use a yahoo account and have started using individual email addresses for most stuff. Basically you choose your new email adress and it is linked to your real email address i.e. [email protected] is linked to [email protected]
the ??? can be anything you like and everything is delivered into whichever box you want so for instance everything from facebook can go into a new inbox named facebook or to your normal inbox if you wish.
If someone uses [email protected] and you have not set up a rule for wrongname you never get it.
So if a suppler leaks your address and you start getting spam from whatever email address you gave them you can kick up a fuss and if you don't want anymore junk you delete the rule from that email address and you stop getting emails.
Wish I had started doing this from when I started with yahoo but I really need to go through all my accounts and switch them over to the new style addresses and stop using me real account details

In reply to a post by TAZZ69:

I use a yahoo account and have started using individual email addresses for most stuff. Basically you choose your new email adress and it is linked to your real email address i.e. [email protected] is linked to [email protected]
the ??? can be anything you like and everything is delivered into whichever box you want so for instance everything from facebook can go into a new inbox named facebook or to your normal inbox if you wish.
If someone uses [email protected] and you have not set up a rule for wrongname you never get it.
So if a suppler leaks your address and you start getting spam from whatever email address you gave them you can kick up a fuss and if you don't want anymore junk you delete the rule from that email address and you stop getting emails.
Wish I had started doing this from when I started with yahoo but I really need to go through all my accounts and switch them over to the new style addresses and stop using me real account details

Cheers, but this is my actual details that I used to create an order, so not just e-mail address :/

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Even that does not really help. I know someone who did that - sold up and moved to somewhere sunny, he lives in a self made shack somewhere remote, he has internet and power but it's all on a Solar system, so if he does not have enough then he can't use it. But he seems to do okay.

As far as the state is concerned, he HAS vanished. I don't know the finer details, but I do know he is very happy living this way - I get an e-mail from him maybe once a week.
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But he is still using the net, so have not really dropped out of society

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In reply to a post by 23Prince:

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Even that does not really help. I know someone who did that - sold up and moved to somewhere sunny, he lives in a self made shack somewhere remote, he has internet and power but it's all on a Solar system, so if he does not have enough then he can't use it. But he seems to do okay.

As far as the state is concerned, he HAS vanished. I don't know the finer details, but I do know he is very happy living this way - I get an e-mail from him maybe once a week.
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But he is still using the net, so have not really dropped out of society

Well, the same as someone would use a PAYG sim, they use it - no one knows who they are. And his goal was to drop out of the mainstream, not to disappear off the face of the earth.