800,000 Virgin Media customers exposed to threat of hack

Virgin Media has been hit with a heavy body blow after an investigation by Which has revealed 800,000 of its Smart Hub 2 customers are at risk of being hacked.
The company has contacted all relevant customers advising them to change the default password supplied with the hub, which seems to be the root of the issue. Using publicly available hacking tools, the Which team targeted a real home which uses the Virgin Media Smart Hub 2 router, and it didn’t take long to crack with this simplisti