Daily Mail, Thursday, March 5, 2020^ Page 15
I’LL PHIL IN, DAD
THESE days his bad back stops him
drumming like he used to. But when
Genesis decided to reform for a
tour, Phil Collins had a ready-made
replacement – his teenage son.
Collins, 69, who will still sing, is
reuniting with guitarist Mike
Rutherford and keyboard player
Tony Banks 13 years after they last
performed together.
His 18-year-old son Nicholas will
play drums on the tour, which starts
in Dublin in November and takes in
eight UK cities. Tickets go on gen-
eral sale tomorrow.
‘He plays a bit like me when he
wants to, but I’m one of his many
influences of course, being his dad,’
Collins said yesterday, leaning on a
walking stick. ‘I’ll be doing my best
to play some bits on the tour.’
Nicholas, who has played the
drums since he was two, was part
of his father’s solo tour last year.
Collins has said previously: ‘It’s notInjured Collins reforms Genesis 13 years on
... with his son replacing him on drums
By Dominique Hines
‘He plays a bit like
me, when he wants’
Hackers attack Boots’
loyalt y card accounts
because he’s the boss’s son that
he’s playing the drums, it’s because
he’s good enough. ’
Genesis formed in 1967, with
Rutherford and Banks among the
founder members. Neither original
vocalist Peter Gabriel, who quit in
1975, nor guitarist Steve Hackett,
who left in 1977, are involved in the
latest reunion.
The band have sold more than
150 million albums and had a string
of hits including Follow You Follow
Me, Turn It On Again, Mama, I Can’t
Dance and Land Of Confusion.
But they were often derided after
their transition from Seventies
prog rock to Eighties soft rock.
Collins, who joined the band in
1970, left in 1996 to concentrate on
his hugely successful solo singing
career. Rutherford, 69, has also
enjoyed separate success, with his
band Mike and the Mechanics.Chip off the old rock: Nicholas Collins, 18, in actionGlory days: Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Phil Collins in 1978I Can’t Dance:
Phil Collins
yesterdayBOOTS has halted purchases
using points built up on its loyalty
card after a cyber attack on its
customer database.
Hackers used passwords that had
been taken from other websites in an
attempt to break into Advantage
Card accounts and steal customers’
points to spend themselves.
This type of cyber attack can be suc-collect four points for every £
they spend. Each point is worth a
penny. The firm said any points
will remain on shoppers’ cards
and they can continue to earn
more to spend in the future.
The security breach comes days
after a similar cyber attack –
known as ‘password stuffing’ –
affected 600,000 Tesco Clubcard
holders, in which some had their
vouchers stolen. The supermarket
said that customers’ financial data
remained safe.
Jake Moore, a cyber- security
expert, told the BBC: ‘These listsof passwords can be easily found
on the dark web for very little, or
even free.
‘It would be a good idea for peo-
ple to check they have imple -
mented two-factor authentication
on each of their accounts, as this
makes the password stuffing
attack that much harder.
‘My further advice is to use a
password manager to store your
uniquely different passwords
robustly online so you don’t have
to remember them all.’
Advantage Card holders can visit
its website to reset their pass-word. The firm added: ‘To help
protect online accounts, we rec-
ommend using different pass-
words for each site used.’
The high street stalwart has suf-
fered from increasing competition
from supermarkets and online
rivals in recent years.
Its parent company, Walgreens
Boots Alliance, has been forced to
cut £1.4billion a year in costs by
2022 by closing stores and laying
off staff.
Boots has already announced
it will close 200 stores as sales
and profits fall.cessful if people use the same
password on multiple websites.
The high street chemist said
none of its systems were compro-
mised in the attack but that it
has suspended payments using
the cards while the problem is
dealt with.
The hack affected around 140,
of the company’s 14.4million
Advantage Card holders, and
Boots stressed that no credit card
information had been accessed.
Boots said: ‘We are writing to
customers if we believe their
account has been affected.
‘If their Advantage Card points
have been used fraudulently wewill, of course, replace them.
These details were not obtained
from Boots.’
Boots launched its Advantage
Card in 1997. It allows shoppers toBy Tom Witherow
Business Correspondent