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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @11:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the miscreants-at-work dept.

Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using stolen customer login credentials, The Reg can reveal, forcing IT bods to pull the website offline for a second day.

The UK capital's transport authority has blamed the intrusions on passengers who have used email address and password combinations for their Oyster accounts that were also used for one or more hacked websites: criminals who have nicked login details from other sites can use that information to get into the Oyster accounts of people who reuse the same usernames and passwords everywhere. This technique is known as credential stuffing.

A TfL spokesperson told us: "We believe that a small number of customers have had their Oyster online account accessed after their login credentials were compromised when using non-TfL websites. No customer payment details have been accessed, but as a precautionary measure and to protect our customers' data, we have temporarily closed online contactless and Oyster accounts while we put additional security measures in place."


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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday August 09 2019, @09:52PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday August 09 2019, @09:52PM (#878029) Journal

    For you and I, sure. For a single mother of three who's trying to keep off the dole, might be a different picture. But yes, one should think about what can happen when you're sharing.... well.... anything, online or otherwise. Too many people seeing the electronic box as magic.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 09 2019, @11:58PM

    Nah, they're not expensive. Not here at least. May run you five bucks on top of whatever you're filling them up with. If that's going to break you, you're overspending already anyway.

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