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Up to 2 Million CeX Customer Accounts Compromised by Security Breach

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If you are a CeX online customer, change your account password now, as the second hand UK goods chain has been informing over two million of its customers their personal details have been hacked. In a customer email CeX discloses they have been the subject of a security breach by a third party, and that's about as much detail as CeX are presently admitting about the cyber attack at the moment. Despite the CeX email referring to a " sophisticated breach of security " without any further detail about what happened, it is impossible to judge whether it was actually a sophisticated cyber attack or not. Rather oddly CeX have not forced a password change on their compromised customer accounts despite admitting account passwords were at risk.   My CeX Customer Advice Change your CeX password straight away. Ignoring the CeX website advice of using a 6 character password, which is too weak - see the Account Password section of this post below.  Alternatively you could als...