Today a posting hit the Full Disclosure list that has tongues a wagging.
From FD:
Hello world,
The U.S. T-Mobile network predominately uses the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1900 MHz frequency-band, making it the largest 1900 MHz network in the United States. Service is
available in 98 of the 100 largest markets and 268 million potential customers.Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers,
financial documents up to 2009.We already contacted with their competitors and they didn’t show interest in buying their data -probably because the mails got to the wrong people- so now we are
offering them for the highest bidder.Please only serious offers, don’t waste our time.
Contact: pwnmobile_at_safe-mail.net
Truth or rumour? No comment from T-Mobile when we made contact.
[UPDATE]: Today we received an official response from T-Mobile on this story. (June 8, 2009)
“The protection of our customers’ information, and the safety and security of our systems, is absolutely paramount at T-Mobile. Regarding the recent claim, we are fully investigating the matter. As is our standard practice, if there is any evidence that customer information has been compromised, we would inform those affected as soon as possible.â€
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Hey Dave – interesting fuel for the fire is the list of boxes, IP addresses and extra information that was attached to that email… only time will tell though. Could be a hoax, or some bad PR attempt?
/rL
Maybe someone should have managed the security on the Watson server better. L.A. Gangs were having fun with it as far back as 2005. Funny thing about databases when you tied the records together. BTW the first line of T-mobile’s replay is an absolutely lie.