Does anyone know exactly what information was taken? Did it include personal email addresses too? As I have had a significant uptick in spam/phishing emails in the last 2 weeks. Could easily just be coincidence.
Email wasnāt mentioned in the announcement: just names, bank details, and āin a small number of casesā addresses. I did wonder if the āsmall numberā might be CFAVs (who donāt live in service housing)ā¦
Iāve gone from getting no more than 10 spam emails a month to 2-6 per day! Thankfully Gmail does get rid of most, but itās still getting a bit annoying. Hopefully just coincidenceā¦ But the uptick started on the 6th of May, shortly after they announced this leak.
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So Iāve had my letter from the MOD today informing me, it would only include Name & Bank details and in some small number cases who will be written to separately address.
Iāve had a small uptick, but generally find that me receiving more spam almost perfectly correlates to when Russia are performing better on the battlefield.
The amount of spam I receive (which AOL does mostly catch) has decreased significantly since the invasion of Ukraine began.
Iāve just done all this and signed up for the Equifax product, seems to work fine.
I still canāt get the code thing needed to register. I am now wondering if CIs are unaffected, and thatās why the link doesnāt work. But it would be nice if someone could confirm yes or no.
The most surprising thing about all of this is that SP get expenses paid fast enough that they could possibly notice slight delays!
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Had my letter today. So personalised that they only managed to put my surname on it. And it doesnāt say anything different to the announcements.
X2 persons in the house, x2 letters, both with just surnamesā¦ and delivered to the wrong house.
At least my neighbours know me and brought them round.
Although it is addressed to ādear armed forces memberā, so now I have a letter from the permanent secretary and the vice chief of the defence staff giving me more status than the actual commission they gave us 
This is a joke btw.
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I do hope you have amended your email signature for all correspondence to
Fg Off (Acting Flt Lt). 
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Might get it framed and put it up next to the scroll in the mancave.
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3 years in scroll nowhere to be seen. I strongly suspect it got put in the ātoo hardā bucket as there was change of monarch between appointment and confirmation of commission.
Well, Iāve just had confirmed, in writing, that I am not effected by this breach. I would therefore guess that also applies to the rest of the CI cadre.
Rather annoyed itās taken this long to get that confirmed, but happy to not be effected!
Mine too. As a result, my wife opened it. No harm done in practice, but that was supposed to be a personal, confidential letterā¦
You mean to say the MoD breached your personal data whilst informing you that they had already breached your personal data?
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That should be reported back to them as a data breach. 
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As should this:
Still nothing one way or the other here, but Iām working to the assumption that I will have been affected as formerly uniformed CFAV.
Email DBS-Informationline@mod.gov.uk and ask. Give them a civvie email, name, NI number and JPA number. Thatās what I did, and theyāve only just got back confirming that I am not effected.
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