Watchdog washes hands of Lush hack

The Information Commissioner's Office is facing criticism today for its failure to punish online retailer Lush for losing 5,000 customer debit and credit card details Lush, home to fruit-based soaps, shampoos and bath bombs, was forced to temporarily shut its website after losing the details late last year. It advised punters …

[Graham Bartlett]

WFT?!

"But the ICO is happy to have got Lush to sign a letter promising to obey the law in future"

So it's not just chavvy looters who think the law doesn't apply to them, then.

[Loyal Commenter]

Eco-friendly products?

If I walk into one of their stores, I can only last a few minutes before my eyes start streaming from all the massively concentrated artificial fragrances. If this is eco-firendly, I'd hate to see their idea of pollution.

[Annihilator]

Walk in?

You only have to walk down the same street as their stores to start gagging..

But in their defence, you've missed the eco-friendliness of it. The reason you can smell it all is because they don't use packaging. Just because soap is strong smelling, doesn't make it a pollutant, or artificial. They also don't test on animals.

I still can't bear to walk past a store though..

[It wasnt me]

Too right

I genuinely struggle to breathe in their stores.

[The Fuzzy Wotnot]

A small price to pay!

Sorry but I brave that place because it guarantees I get Brownie points off the Missus when I produce a bloody great box of the smelly cack at special times of the year, which means I get to spend more money on photography kit and get left alone to bugger off into the wilderness to use it!

You'd be wise to stuff cotton-wool up your hooter and brave the place too if you fancy some peace and quiet at home!

[Anonymous Coward]

if you ask me

something stinks

[dogged]

True story.

That place should be shut down as a public health measure. The smell starts melting your earwax from three streets away.

[Anonymous Coward]

ICO - waste of tax

The ICO really is a total waste of space . Nothing is soooo bad that it requires anything but "please dont do it again" , Bloody useless, I know from personal experience of them. Bit like every other Body related to the Govt.

[Peter X]

Have the ICO ever actually done anything?

Do the ICO ever prosecute anyone? Only a few days ago I was reading about some clowns who lost a USB stick in a pub with thousands of housing association tenants details:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/05/0012209/Hundreds-of-Bank-Account-Details-Left-In-London-Pub

They got away without so much as a token fine!

[Anonymous Coward]

Court case in limbo

The EU court action has actually been suspended apparently.