Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files. An advert posted to a cybercrime forum last week claimed to list 230,105 records stolen from the telco, with interested parties invited to bid for access to the data via Telegram. According to the …

[JimmyPage]

Surely it's a data

Brch ?

[Apocalypso - a cheery end to the world]

Re: Surely it's a data

Life's a btch

[elsergiovolador]

Re: Surely it's a data

brch the btch.

[Valeyard]

Brsk

The most secret and obscure bit of information they managed to obtain was that this company exists, I've never heard of them

[BartyFartsLast]

Re: Brsk

My ISP and they've been excellent, great speed up and down, responsive and proactive support but this does sour them a bit, even though I don't seem to be in the breach.

[Dr Dan Holdsworth]

Re: Brsk

They've been stretching the permitted development rules round the Burnley area to put up lots of telegraph poles to carry their wiring from street boxes to customers, and in doing so incurring the wrath of the locals for putting poles in silly places. This isn't actually breaking the law, but a tad more sensitivity and common sense could have been applied in the implementation.

[Andy Landy]

they have potential...

brsk have been advertising and leafletting in my area for a few years. when they first came on the scene their "fibre" offering was actually fibre to a wifi access point up a telegraph pole, with external antenna installed at your house. yeah, no thanks.

but to their credit they have been rolling out actual fibre - their own network, they're not piggybacking on openreach

they have had actual FTTP in my area for a good few months now, and seem to be making a sales push -- had a door-to-door brsk salesman knock on only last week

symmetric 2 Gbsp FTTP was certainly tempting... but i'm happy with my aanet connection, so thanks but no thanks :)

[Wiretrip]

Re: they have potential...

We actually have this at our house. It is fibre from the pole to the house and works extremely well and priced well under the equivalent openreach offerings. I will of course be keeping a close eye on my bank accounts and the killer attack dogs are on standby.

[BartyFartsLast]

Re: they have potential...

Same, it is excellent and it's true FTTP, got it a both homes. Have referred a few colleagues too and they've reported similar experiences.

Sad to see this though, I guess I'll watch how it all pans out and how they handle it

[cookiecutter]

12 months of free experian?!!

until the CEO of these firms is PERSONALLY liable for data breaches & we see those scum going to jail, this will keep happening!

I genuinely can't wait into a major CEO is scammed from a data breach at a company he's a customer of.

someone using your details can screw your financial life for years! yet these firms STILL don't take any of it seriously. Because the management knows that they're immune. A customer having to spend weeks dealing with various banks & mortgage firms trying to deal with financial fraud means nothing to them.

remember back to the 00s when stolen credit cards were used to access an FBI honeypot CSAM site & people went to jail, others kilked themselves because the police are too dumb to accept that credit card details could be stolen. Yet have ANY of these firms taken any of this seriously? They're spending more on checkbox cybersecurity but still ignoring it defunding the basics that could avoid any of this.

pathetic! Even when asked WHY I should care if a major tier 1 bank gets ransomed when they insist on shipping out work or bringing in 3rd parties with proven histories of shite work, the answer I got was "well l we have to go where the talent is" .

We NEED a large banking firm to go to the wall from a hack or a CEO scammed to bankruptcy before anyone takes any of this seriously

[aaronmdjones]

Refreshing

I appreciate that none of the press releases had the usual lie about customer security being some sort of priority for them.

[MilSpec]

When companies describe a breach of their systems as an "unauthorized access", it strikes me as being a little disingenuous. Clearly steps that could have been implemented to prevent such access had not taken place, so they might just as well have hung a sign on the server room door that says "Keep out, and please close the door when you leave"

[Blue Shirt Guy]

I believe the correct sign is "beware of the leopard".

[IGotOut]

A Leopard 1 or 2 in the server is God tier BOFH

[spireite]

Their actual name is Bloody Risk....