T-Mobile Germany exposes confidential data for 30 million customers

Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Oct 13, 2008 12:01 pm 11 comments

Filed in News, T-Mobile

Fresh on the heels of last week’s announcement that they lost confidential data for 17 million customers, T-Mobile on Saturday confirmed that an error in their system exposed the confidential data for 30 million customers. The data breach which included bank account information was easy to access and manipulate online. T-Mobile quietly introduced a new security system on Friday that immediately closed the security hole and assured customers that no theft of the exposed data had occurred. After last week’s revelation and now this security breach, sounds like T-Mobile should spend more time shoring up their customer database and less time pushing phones out the door .

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11 comment(s) for this post.

On Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:13 pm, Isaac Said:

What noobs.

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:14 pm, Jeremiah Said:

Have they made sure it’s just T-Mobile Germany and not potentially other divisions?

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 1:58 pm, Abhishek Said:

Hah! I’m sooo gonna forward this to my ex!! Make her dumass worry about maybe having her credit card info given to someone in Nigeria!

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 2:16 pm, JustMe Said:

Whoa.. Now that’s rough.

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 3:00 pm, Perspective Said:

It’s not as bad as it sounds. . . Many of those customers have suspicious sounding names such as “Ben Dover” and “Hugh G. Rection”, and if you remove them, your left with only 4 or 5 million customers. And since this is T-Mobile, which is known to have credit standards that make Mitsubishi Motors look elitist, the personal data is basically useless. Unless what potential thieves want is a credit card with a $200 limit, in which case this data will be very helpful.

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 4:17 pm, Lily Said:

The good news for us Americans is that this is T-Mobile Germany’s mistake. While T-Mobile USA goes by the same name, they are completely different companies in the grand scheme of things.

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 4:42 pm, Benny Said:

Well! At least there is some good reason to be living in the USA. -.-

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 4:50 pm, Bratag Said:

Anyone who doesn’t have credit monitoring in this day and age is just fooling themselves. Not that I think its right that Tmob exposed this data, but its happened so many times in so many companies people need to start being proactive.

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On Oct 13, 2008 @ 6:53 pm, tmob36 Said:

Tmo Germany and Tmo USA are two completely different companys…and here in the US Tmobile has the most stringent requirements for accessing account information out of all providers. We require valid photo I’d and password to access accounts in our retail store, as in all retail stores around the country. From porting over #’s from other carriers I’ve learned that most other companys don’t even require a pin or password to access account information thru customer care! Be confident Tmob customers, your acct info is in safe hands!

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On Oct 14, 2008 @ 12:12 am, Eduardo Said:

I was expecting someone to say something about T-Mo USA. Guess they looke at the title before replying.

Sucks for those people.

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On Oct 14, 2008 @ 9:53 am, Likeabite Said:

That’s what you get for using T-emporary Mobile

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