Watford Community Housing Trust has denied that recent scam calls to their customers are related to a data breach in 2020.
The housing association had sent out an email in March, 2020, to all tenants to inform them of changes to services during the coronavirus outbreak.
But attached to the email was a spreadsheet that contained personal information of the housing association’s 3,545 tenants.
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On Monday, (September 16, 2022) customer Dee Hart reported receiving a scam call from someone claiming to be a contractor hired by Watford Community Housing Trust, asking about outstanding repairs to the home.
Other customers then reported receiving the same call, and some linked the scam to the data breach.
Tracie York-Price said: “It’s because they gave all our info out.
“I believe it is [linked to the data breach] myself as I have never been contacted by the council ever for repairs.
“It’s not really very good.”
Another person, who did not wish to be named, said: “It is still more consequences from the data breach, years down the line.
Watford Community Housing Trust. Picture: Google Street View “No other housing association has had a data breach and their residents haven’t been contacted by any scam artists.
“It just seems very coincidental that it has happened to those poor residents.”
Another added: “That’s what you get from sending out everyone’s data.”
However, the trust has…
