Information a bit too precise?
As a Virgin customer who has the tv,telephone and broadband package,I get my monthly bill via email (e billing).
I have the xl package which costs £56 per month.
This 'saves' me £1.25 each month because I do not recieve a paper bill.
To access my bill I have to type in my account name and more importantly MY PASSWORD, which I change regularly.
If I have to telephone Virgin to query anything concerning my bill I have to quote my account number and a different password, along with answering a question relating to me personally (not mothers maiden name but along similar lines) that I had chosen when setting up my account with Virgin.
Failure to answer the question correctly means no access to my account information.
Accessing my account via the net only gives the basic billing information
it enables me to see what the bill is, if I have had a pay per view item, ie any type of film it just says, pay per view, the time and date , not what was purchased.
I will admit to having payed for an adult channel once on pay per view at a cost of £5 (total waste of money lol) was but again it did not specify what was purchased.
Therefore just how was the rather too detailed information obtained?
The names of the channels he purchased and the titles of the films he watched, plus the statement that he only watched a 'few minutes' of one of the films he purchased.
None of that information would be found on an e bill nor on a paper one.
When you buy any film you have 16 hours in which to watch it , and you can view it more than once in that time period.It does not specify how long nor how many times the programme was viewed on your bill.
The details emerging concerning this episode seem too precise , my only thought is that someone at Virgin obtained the details at the request of a third party.
As for the expenses lark wasn't it dear Maggie who set up the system rather than give MP's a pay rise sometime back in the early 1980's?
Another one of her time bombs set to go off long after she had left office.