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http://news.techworld.com/personal-tech/3277379/x-factor-contestants-warned-after-250000-data-breach/

Would-be contestants of Simon Cowell’s US X Factor might have got more public exposure than they bargained for with the news that the details of 250,000 of them have been lost after an attack on the TV show’s database.

The records were stolen from TV network Fox Broadcasting and included personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, but not credit card details, said UK tabloid, the Daily Star, which broke the news.

“This week, we learned that computer hackers illegally accessed information you and others submitted to us to receive information about The X Factor auditions,” read an email sent to those affected by the attack.

An interesting article which reminds me of the Sony data loss and outage last week on their PlayStation network, often it’s not so much the fact that data got lost or that it could have fallen into un-anticiapted user groups, it is more an issue of perceived responsibility and communication. Many a user can accept mistakes happen, if you detail what has happened, what the anticipated risk is and what actions you are taking to rectify or mitigate the impact. On the Sony angle, it was interesting that my nephews are not trading in their PlayStation 3 for an Xbox-360 because of data loss, but because the network was down and ‘they couldn’t play online against each other’.

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