T-Mobile
is the latest in the list of recent high-profile data breaches, though
this time the breach is not carried out by "Peace" - the Russian hacker
who was behind the massive breaches in some popular social media sites
including LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com.
Instead,
one of the T-Mobile's employees stole more than 1.5 Million customer
records at the T-Mobile Czech Republic in order to sell it on for a
profit, according to local media, MF DNES.
Yes,
the customer service staff member tried to sell the T-Mobile customer
marketing database, though it is not clear that how much of names,
e-mail addresses, account numbers and other personal data of over 1.5
Million customers the database contained.
The T-Mobile Czech Republic has also refused to provide any "additional specific information"about what data was leaked, due to an ongoing police investigation.
Although the company assured its
customers that the stolen database did not contain any sensitive
information such as location, traffic or other sensitive data like
passwords, rather the stolen data was only used for marketing purposes.
Milan Vasina, the Managing
Director at the T-Mobile Czech Republic, said there was "no actual data
leak" and that customer "data are safe."
"Although we found no system failure during a thorough check, we'll check the whole system again and consider the introduction of other precautionary measures if necessary," Vasina said in a statement.
Insider Threat
The Czech media is speculating
that the data leak is massive that probably involves more than 1.5
Million T-Mobile customers, which makes it the largest known breach ever
happened in the Czech Republic.
The investigation into the issue
has been handed over to the Czech Police's Unit for Combating Organized
Crime, though the company said the data breach is not due to a signal
failure or a failure of system or procedures.
Instead, the data was stolen by
one of its employees who was part of a "small team" that "worked with
customer data" and who was caught while attempting to sell the database.
T-Mobile said it would inform its customers of any further developments in the investigation.
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