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Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard

Posted by timothy on from the caller-id dept.

dasButcher writes "Hackers are claiming to own T-Mobile USA's servers and to have access to the cellular phone carrier's operations, finance and subscriber data." (Here's the seclists.org post of the claimed breach.)

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  1. If you were smart, you used a prepaid phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you were a T-Mobile user and smart, you didn't trust T-Mobile in the first place and used a prepaid phone and so there isn't a whole lot of data on you in the first place.

    If you choose to trust a company with an enormous amount of your data, it's not a question of whether that will be abused. It's just a question of which will happen first: whether crackers will acquire it or whether the company will get into financial trouble and sell that data (or use it itself to try and make a return somehow).

  2. Re:Using the data for good purposes by cdrguru · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, I think DVD's cost too much. Shouldn't the government step in there as well? How about cars? They cost too much, don't you think?

    While the government is at it, shouldn't all prices have to be approved, regulated and reviewed periodically by the government? I mean if one grocery store in LA is charging $0.15 for an apple and one in Seattle is charging $0.30 isn't there some gouging going on here? Shouldn't we just have the goverment set all prices for all goods and services? Wouldn't that be more fair?

    Short answer: no.