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'Thank you' Telegraph tells hackers

The danger posed by internet security threats and hackers has been underlined by last week's hacking of the Telegraph website.

A flaw on the one of the newspaper group's website came to light when Hackersblog published a claim and proof showing that the publication's online security had been compromised by an SQL injection attack.

The hackers claimed in a blog posting on the site that the details of individuals registered to receive the newsletter were potentially at risk from spammers.

Acknowledging the incident, Paul Cheesbrough, the chief information officer for Telegraph Media Group, sought to reassure everyone that details of registered users were safe.

"The hack interrogated database tables behind one of our partner sites - search.property.telegraph.co.uk - and exposed a weakness in the way that particular site had been coded," he said.

"We immediately took the impacted site down on Friday, and the two-year-old third party code is being re-written to eliminate the issues that hackersblog.org brought to our attention."

He went on to thank the hackers for highlighting the vulnerability.

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