Comments on: T-Mobile Germany exposes confidential data for 30 million customers

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:53:58 +0000

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

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:12:17 +0000

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

Sucks for those people.

By: tmob36

tmob36 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:53:46 +0000

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!

By: Bratag

Bratag — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:50:31 +0000

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.

By: Benny

Benny — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:42:58 +0000

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

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:17:19 +0000

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.

By: Perspective

Perspective — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:47 +0000

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.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:16:50 +0000

Whoa.. Now that’s rough.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:58:21 +0000

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!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:14:31 +0000

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

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:13:16 +0000

What noobs.