According to Fairfax, Vodafone's client database is accessible to all its dealers over the internet, amongst the effect that whatsoever dealer tin sack hold off upwards extensive amounts of personally identifiable information (PII), together amongst telephone telephone as well as SMS history, for whatsoever customer.
The Sydney Morning Herald says that unscrupulous password-holders bring been offering what amounts to "pay-per-view" access to client information to 3rd parties.
Individuals, claims the Herald, are buying information to give-up the ghost on runway of their spouses, whilst "criminal groups [are] paying for the individual information of some Vodafone customers to stand upwards over them". (Standover is the chillingly descriptive Australian vernacular for intimidation as well as extortion.)
If these allegations are truthful - as well as the reporter making them describes how she watched her ain details, including consummate telephone telephone records, brought upwards over the mesh yesteryear someone amongst a password for the Vodafone database - hence they come upwards at a woeful instant for Vodafone.
The society is already nether the heart over ongoing network problems - a Sydney constabulary draw solid late laid a "register hither to bring together a aeroplane activity against Vodafone" website, as well as claimed on 05 Jan 2011 that unopen to 9000 customers bring already expressed an interest. (To last fair to Vodafone, this is 1 of those "no win no fee" deals, as well as no-one has genuinely had to render whatsoever prove or information yet. Talk - or its modern equivalent, clicking on a website - is cheap.)
This storey is a disappointing echo of the so-called WikiLeaks "Cablegate" drama. In this case, it is claimed that a unmarried person, amongst the lowly rank of PFC (Lance Corporal), was able to access, as well as to re-create unencrypted, iii decades' worth of hush-hush United States State Department diplomatic cables.
Organisational information shouldn't last accessible inward an all-or-nothing fashion similar this. It isn't fair to the organisation, as well as it definitely isn't fair to its customers. If you lot haven't withal started thinking close how to divide-and-conquer your corporate information - as well as how to divide-and-conquer the adminstration of that information - hence why non teach inward a 2011 New Year's Resolution to produce so?
News Source : Om Rathore | Sophos
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