British retailer WHSmith accidentally emailed hundreds of personal customer details to users

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by Sindy Cator on September 2, 2015 at 9:33 am

A problem with a form on the UK retailer WHSmith’s website is resulting in masses of spam email and customer details being indiscriminately sent out to anyone who enquires about magazine subscriptions. Of course, being the sort of patient, calm nation that the UK is, almost no one took to Twitter to complain. Oh, wait, yes they did. Loads of them. Sounds like a problem with @WHSmith IT, emailing customers’ contact details to other customers. See @WHSmith mentions… #data #dataprotection — Jonathan Hewett (@jonhew) September 2, 2015 @WHSmith why are you not addressing the data breach? I've received a variety…