Twitter pokes fun at Wetherspoon's hack victims

Breached: Wetherspoon's old website was hacked

Rex

4 December 2015

Twitter users were quick to poke fun at Wetherspoon's and its customers ater it emerged their details were stolen by hackers.

The hackers' questionable decision to target the budget pub chain was widely ridiculed, with one saying: "they could've just visited one at 11am & asked p****d people for them direct."

A flurry of tweets were posted on Friday morning mocking the chain's regulars after it emerged the database, which contained partial credit card numbers of 100 people, and the names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and birthdays of more than 650,000 others, had been compromised.

Craig Drake said: "Like 99% of Wetherspoons customers, I pay cash, leave no trace."

While Tiernan Douieb tweeted: "Can't believe Wetherspoons' customer's details got hacked when they could've just visited one at 11am & asked p****d people for them direct.

And Mark Wilson posted: "Whoa, Wetherspoons customers have found out about the internet? Crikey!"

While Jon Norris said: "Wetherspoons a very smart target for hackers. Imagine the % of spoons punters that actually HAVE been injured in the past six months."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SarahDuggers" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/SarahDuggers" data-vars-event-id="c23">@SarahDuggers</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/jimwaterson" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/jimwaterson" data-vars-event-id="c23">@jimwaterson</a> like 99% of Wetherspoons customers, I pay cash, leave no trace — Craig Drake (@csdrake) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/csdrake/status/672721388730490880" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/csdrake/status/672721388730490880" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Can't believe Wetherspoons' customer's details got hacked when they could've just visited one at 11am & asked pissed people for them direct — Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb/status/672724716331933696" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb/status/672724716331933696" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Whoa, Wetherspoons customers have found out about the internet? Crikey!<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://t.co/ySDvdxRAGc" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://t.co/ySDvdxRAGc" data-vars-event-id="c23">https://t.co/ySDvdxRAGc</a> — Mark Wilson (@markhw42) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/markhw42/status/672706439236993024" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/markhw42/status/672706439236993024" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Wetherspoons a very smart target for hackers. Imagine the % of spoons punters that actually HAVE been injured in the past six months. — Jon Norris (@Jn_Norris) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Jn_Norris/status/672732662096928768" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/Jn_Norris/status/672732662096928768" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

Others reserved their ridicule for the hackers themselves, with one Twitter user posting: "To the people who thought 'We're gonna hack Wetherspoons', well done. You did it, aim high, chaps."

And another twitter user said: "Why would anyone hack JD Wetherspoons? Basically a database of people whose benefit cheques have just been cashed."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Why would anyone hack JD Wetherspoons? Basically a database of people whose benefit cheques have just been cashed. — rustinpeace (@rustinpeace00) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/rustinpeace00/status/672747951609937921" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/rustinpeace00/status/672747951609937921" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> To the people who thought 'We're gonna hack Wetherspoons', well done. You did it, aim high, chaps — YOU GOT THAT WRONG (@NotFaulty) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/NotFaulty/status/672707737852186624" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3129986-https://twitter.com/NotFaulty/status/672707737852186624" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 4, 2015</a>

The company has said sorry to customers, saying The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which regulates data protection, had been informed of the breach, and that a forensic investigation was ongoing.

In a statement posted online Wetherspoon's said: “We cannot confirm whether any of your personal data was included in this breach. However, I wanted to make you aware immediately and apologise on behalf of the company."

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