Two companies fined a total of £150k after bombarding people with spam texts offering financial, debt services

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two Manchester based financial and debt management companies a total of £150,000 for sending in excess of 7.5million spam text messages to people.

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blog.ethereum.org mailing list incident

On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content Users who clicked the link in the email were sent…

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blog.ethereum.org mailing list incident

On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content Users who clicked the link in the email were sent…

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ICO warns charities about direct marketing rules as it orders Penny Appeal to stop sending spam texts

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered a charity to stop sending unsolicited marketing texts to people without their consent, as it reminds all charities of their legal obligations.

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ICO fines financial services company £50k for spam text messages

Financial services company LADH Limited has been fined £50,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending tens of thousands of spam text messages, in breach of Privacy and Electronic…

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ICO fines HelloFresh £140,000 for spam texts and emails

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined food delivery company HelloFresh £140,000 for a campaign of 79 million spam emails and 1 million spam texts over a seven-month period.

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Transaction spam attack: Next Steps

Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to 20-60 seconds to…

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Halfords fined for sending nearly 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Halfords Limited £30,000 for sending 498,179 unsolicited marketing emails to people without their consent.

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ICO fines company for sending thousands of spam text messages during the pandemic

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined H&L Business Consulting Ltd £80,000 for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to people who had not consented to receive them.

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Is Moonpad the Most Fair IDO Platform in the Crypto Space?

MoonPad aims to address the current problems plaguing DeFi – making it a safer endeavor for investors to engage in. The problem we are facing is not just rugg pulls,…

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