https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3081045/teletext-holidays-revealed-as-holding-call-centre-recordings-in-the-mix
By Chris Merriman
The Inquirer
September 2, 2019
FORMER PIXELATED pre-internet page-turner Teletext Holidays has been hit
with a security breach which saw 212,000 calls to its Indian call centre
vulnerable to anyone and everyone.
Verdict, which discovered the hack, reports that the vulnerability, like
so many before it, was the result of an unsecured Amazon Web Services
(AWS) database.
Teletext Holidays is the last vestiges of the former brand, which was a
popular way to search for a holiday via the TV, back in the days before
the programme to populate the internet with cats had rolled out.
Verdict found 532,000 files in total, of which the aforementioned 212,000
were calls from customers made between 10 April 2016 and 10 August 2016.
They have since been removed.
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