T-mobile system hit by hackers
In 2005 i read about hackers hacked the t-mobile customer information database. I am curious to know what precaustions has been taken by the company. T-mobile is a wireless giant operating in USA. Hacker able to get into the system and steal the important data of clients. The social security numbers, phone numbers and other personal information is among the stolen data. T-mobile also possess celebrities particulars too. Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions 2004 October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms. The informant also produced evidence that Jacobsen was behind an offer to provide T-Mobile customers’ personal information to identity thieves through an Internet bulletin board, according to court records.
Jacobsen could access information on any of the Bellevue, Washington-based company’s 16.3 million customers, including many customers’ Social Security numbers and dates of birth, according to government filings in the case. He could also obtain voicemail PINs, and the passwords providing customers with Web access to their T-Mobile e-mail accounts. He did not have access to credit card numbers.
Precautions of t-mobile are normal as other organizations do. The following is a statement which shows their security measures.
T-Mobile uses reasonable precautions to protect the privacy of your credit card and other ordering information by utilizing a Secure Socket Layer (”SSL”) connection. Accordingly, your credit card and other ordering information, such as your name and address, is encrypted using the SSL connection and is not expected to be read in an intelligible form as it travels to T-Mobile order processing system. T-Mobile order processing systems are not connected to the Internet and are not accessible to the public.
Many Web browsers support the use of an SSL connection, but if your browser does not support the use of an SSL connection or if you prefer not to send your credit card number over the Internet,