TfL hack in 2024 affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".
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"At the time of the incident, we identified around 5,000 customers requiring support as we knew that some of their Oyster card refund data may also have been accessed, which could include bank account numbers and sort codes."
— TfL spokesperson , Other
"We have kept our customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action."
— TfL spokesperson , Other
"The most surprising part of the TfL breach isn’t that millions of people had their data stolen, it’s that the true scale of it only really becomes clear long after the incident occurs."
— Jake Moore , Other
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TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people, a far larger crowd than the few thousand customers originally warned that their details might be at risk.
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed around 10 million people had their data stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, new reports have claimed.
Around 10 million people had their data stolen in a cyberattack on London's public transport operator in 2024, making it one of Britain's largest breaches, the BBC reported on Friday.
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