Virgin Media thinks 800,000 users should change their router passwords
 

Virgin Media thinks 800,000 users should change their router passwords
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Virgin Media wants you to change your router password.*

The company recently published guidance on how to do that for older router models after Which? magazine — a publication "k**wn for testing household products" — found that Virgin Media routers weren't so hard to hack.*

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Which? found that Virgin Media's Super Hub 2 "can be hacked in a matter of days" if users don't change the default password the devices come with. Once someone hacks into a router, that person can often get access to devices that use that router. Around 864,000 people apparently own a Super Hub 2. Read more...

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