Stealing millions of customer details is bad enough but it's interesting to see that other vendors purchased the stolen data. Somehow the buyers of that data are being given a free pass. The stolen data was sent over to telemarketers who have been hammering away at clients since they have the full details on when their old contract expired. What could possibly go wrong there?
Personal details of thousands of mobile phone customers have been stolen and sold to rival firms in the biggest data breach of its kind, the government's privacy watchdog said today.
An employee of phone operator T-Mobile sold the customer records, including details of when contracts expired. The millions of items of information were sold on for "substantial sums", the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said. Rival networks and mobile phone retailers then tried to lure away T-Mobile customers by "cold calling".
