BT admits passing unencrypted customer data to ACS:Law
A law firm – ACS:Law – that has been criticised from several quarters for the mass issue of letters to alleged copyright infringers on the internet, has seen the details of 13 000 alleged filesharing users leaked on to the internet.
And it appears that BT may be to blame for some of the leaks, as it seems that BT has admitted sending the details of around 500 of its subscribers who were suspected of filesharing, but failed to encrypt the Excel-based file data.
Newswire reports suggest that the Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is investigating the apparent data leak, whilst some of the people whose details have been leaked are reportedly talking to their lawyers. The BBC, meanwhile, said today that the ACS:Law is not dissuaded from its campaign, and is set to go to court next week to seek the broadband records of several hundred subscribers from Plus.net, the Sheffield-based ISP, which was acquired by BT a few years ago.
