Virgin Media UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media has suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,000 customers. The company said the incident was neither a cyber attack nor the company’s database was hacked. Virgin Media said the exposed database was accidentally left unsecured on the Internet from April 19, 2019 that’s almost a year and was recently accessed by an unauthorized party at least once. The exposed database stored the information on both customers and potential customers, including “fixed-line customers representing approximately 15% of that customer base”
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/virgin-media-data-breach.html