Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"

On 03/03/2025 12:27, Java Jive wrote:

"Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg885lxd3jo
"A man targeted by fraudsters who got his mobile phone number from an energy company said he often woke up in the night thinking "what next?".
 Stephen, from Hertfordshire, had more than £40,000 taken from a savings account after his name and email address was used to get the information from EDF.
 Within 48 hours of his mobile phone number being divulged, his accounts with O2, Nationwide Building Society and Virgin Media had all been compromised.
  So, EDF allowed them to go from his email address to obtaining his mobile phone number for a SIM-swap scam, but I wonder how they managed to go from either to all his savings accounts, unless they'd also compromised his PC or phone as well; if the latter, why did they need to go via EDF?

   Possibly via his email, which was with Virgin Media. I hope VM don't just send a password reset code to an O2 phone linked to the VM account.
  Or he's been pwned.