Information Security News: Oxfam suffers security breach

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Wednesday 16th August 2000

Charity group, Oxfam, was hit by a security attack yesterday in which
the email details of 300 customers were accessed. A spokeswoman for
the group explained a friendly hack was suspected but that no data had
been downloaded.

The organisation is just the latest in a series of high profile names
to have suffered security breaches in recent weeks.

However, Oxfam immediately shut down its website and this morning
alerted all 300 affected users and requested them to report any
suspicious mail to the organisation.

The organisation confirmed that no credit card details had been
accessed.

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