Lush as with other retailers have been attacked by hackers trying to get hold of their customers credit card details.

On http://www.lush.co.uk/ customers are welcomed by this message:
We are very sorry to confirm that our website has been the victim of hackers.

24 hour security monitoring has shown us that we were still being targeted and there were continuing attempts to re-enter.

We refuse to put our customers at risk of another entry – so have decided to completely retire this version of our website.

For complete peace of mind, we would like all customers that placed ONLINE orders with us between 4th Oct 2010 and today, 20th Jan 2011, to contact their banks for advice as their card details may have been compromised.

Hacking is a serious issue of our era but we feel that Lush management team has over reacted and destroyed their online reputation and their google indexation. Google have stopped crawling the old content on the site, the site will quickly lose its ranking and when finally will be up. Lush.co.uk will have no traffic and be forgotten by all.

Many details of the incident still remain unclear, such as how many card details may have been compromised and how the hackers gained entry to the cosmetics firm’s back-end systems.

Until Lush can clear up the security issues with its site, it has chosen to use PayPal as a means of taking payments for any purchases made in the near future. This is a temporary solution and it hopes to get its own payment system up and running as soon as possible, to ensure that safe shopping online is once again available to its customers.

Younger women are generally quoted a lower premium, as statistically women are less likely to be involved in crashes, when compared to younger men. However this is reversed as women get older. The differences in price quotes can be marginal or significant, but regardless of this, there is typically always a difference. According to The Guardian, some insurers are demanding that women pay 50% more than their male counterparts at age 75 and as much as 100% more at age 80.

The last few decades has seen a dramatic increase in the number of elderly female drivers on the roads. According to statistics from the UK Department for Transport only 4% of women over the age of 70 had driving licences in 1976. This figure jumped to 20% in the 90s and today is at 36%.
The cross over point seems to be somewhere between 50 and 60 years. But what is the reasoning behind this? According to the statistics older female drivers are responsible for more accidents than older male drivers. Insurers believe this is possibly because they often let men do more of the driving and are not as confident when it is their turn to get behind the wheel.

Men are also more likely to become unable to drive or pass away before their partners and this can force women who don’t have the necessary confidence to get behind the wheel.

Of course, the difference in insurance prices should be seen as a stereotype or a sexist attack on women. Britain’s safest driver quite the roads two years ago, aged 94. She had completed more than 600,000 miles without even a speeding ticket.

Muriel Gladwin had 82 years of driving behind her, before she decided to “quit while she’s ahead.” The former shopkeeper spoke to the Daily Mail, explaining how she was looking forward to retiring without even a blemish on her record.
Speaking to the Daily Mail she said:

“I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of miles and still have a completely clean record, so I’m going to quit while I’m ahead.”

“I’m a careful driver and I’ve never had an accident or a parking ticket, or made an insurance claim before.”

“I think it’s because I always keep my eyes wide open and stick to the rules of the road like glue.”

But perhaps Muriel is an exception to the rule. For her 85th birthday she celebrated the event by taking a microlite trip and then trying out a quadbike – not the typical birthday party for someone of her age.