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Notebooksbilliger and Pÿur Confirm Data Leaks After Cyberattacks

Retailer notebooksbilliger and cable provider Tele Columbus, which trades as Pÿur, are emailing customers about data leaks following separate IT attacks.

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Notebooksbilliger and Tele Columbus, the provider behind the Pÿur brand, are currently notifying customers by email that data was taken in IT attacks on their systems.

The messages are going out to affected customers of both companies. The material available so far does not specify which data was exposed, how many people are affected or when the intrusions took place, so those details remain open.

What customers should do

Anyone who receives such a notice should read it carefully and check that it really comes from the company. After incidents like this, fraudsters often send fake messages that imitate the official notification. Customers should not click links in unexpected emails or hand over passwords or payment details. Using a unique password for each service and enabling two-factor authentication wherever it is offered limits the damage if login data has been exposed.

For the two companies, the incidents mean questions about how the attackers got in and whether the exposed information could be misused. Companies that suffer a personal data breach generally face notification duties toward the people concerned, which is what the emails appear to fulfil.

Further details, such as the scope of the leak and the measures taken, are expected to emerge as the companies and the authorities assess the incidents.

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