Vodafone Customer Database Breached

beaverdownunder writes "Vodafone has confirmed it believes its secure customer database has been breached by an employee or dealer who has shared the access password, revealing the personal details of millions of customers... According to Fairfax newspapers, 'criminal groups are paying for the private information of some customers including home addresses and credit card details.'"

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Re:Valuable goods will be stolen

[Darshu]

On the contrary. ID is not permitted to be required. See right here:

http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/contactus/merchantviolations.html

[On an OT note, since when does Slashdot require me to wait for an extraordinarily long period of time when I am just trying to reply with some simple information]