Four MILLION Vodafone customers in Oz have had their personal details, including call records and texts, sold on to "criminal gangs. The story, over at Computer Weekly:
Vodafone employees allegedly sold private customer details and records with access to entire lists of calls and messages from individuals. Company employees have been accused of selling the sensitive information to criminal gangs...
Vodafone Australia chief executive, Nigel Dews, said, "We've made swift progress. We've terminated the employment of a number of staff; we've undertaken a review of the security systems and processes, and we're implementing some of the initiatives straightaway."
At least they've sacked people. One better than most responses to data loss. Oh, and one more thing:
Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has launched an investigation to determine whether the mobile firm breached the country's Privacy Act.
By Alex Deane
Not a story about customer records being sold, more a story about employees making available to the public internal services designed for Vodafone resellers.
Update on the story over at El Reg - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/13/vodafone_response_privacy_breach/
Posted by: SadButMadLad | 14/01/2011 at 08:47 PM
If this happens to a country like Australia, how about the third world countries like the Philippines? I'm worried..Nice post.
Posted by: Brad Fallon | 15/01/2011 at 12:48 AM