Public sector bods blame users recycling logins
Exclusive Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using customer credentials, The Reg can reveal, as the transport authority keeps the website offline for a second day.
Some Oyster customers have had their accounts broken into, and the transport authority has blamed users who recycled their login creds with other websites.
A TfL spokesperson told us: "We believe that a small number of customers have had their Oyster online account accessed after their login credentials were compromised when using non-TfL websites.
In fiscal year 2018/19 nearly a billion rail, tram and bus journeys were made using Oyster cards, netting TfL a cool ÂŁ2.3bn in revenue, according to its own statistics.
@TfL trying to report my Oyster card lost and the website keeps crashing.
Public sector bods blame users recycling logins
Exclusive Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using customer credentials, The Reg can reveal, as the transport authority keeps the website offline for a second day.
Some Oyster customers have had their accounts broken into, and the transport authority has blamed users who recycled their login creds with other websites.
A TfL spokesperson told us: "We believe that a small number of customers have had their Oyster online account accessed after their login credentials were compromised when using non-TfL websites.
In fiscal year 2018/19 nearly a billion rail, tram and bus journeys were made using Oyster cards, netting TfL a cool ÂŁ2.3bn in revenue, according to its own statistics.
@TfL trying to report my Oyster card lost and the website keeps crashing.