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Who needs to worry about hackers and crooks when you have scumbag employees like this working for your cell phone provider.

Personal data, including customers' contract expiry dates, were sold to several rivals, which then used the material to cold-call customers to offer them an alternative deal, the office said. "The number of records involved runs into the millions, and it appears that substantial amounts of money changed hands," the government body said in a document submitted to the Ministry of Justice.
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Great.... now i am going to have to add more "spam' contacts to my mobile phone.

I already have 4-5 numbers that try to call me every once in a while. After the first few times, I wised up and started adding them as contacts so I wouldn't have to listen to / hang up on them anymore.

I hope however sold the info cannot find a job for the rest of their life.... blacklist them world-wide.
 
Its T-Mobile btw

dunno why they are saying "which Graham said could not be identified because an investigation was ongoing" it was bloody all over Channel4 news tonight
 
Yup - been contacted by some other parties thrice already asking about T-mobile renewal
 
cyclone3d said:
Great.... now i am going to have to add more "spam' contacts to my mobile phone.

I already have 4-5 numbers that try to call me every once in a while. After the first few times, I wised up and started adding them as contacts so I wouldn't have to listen to / hang up on them anymore.

I hope however sold the info cannot find a job for the rest of their life.... blacklist them world-wide.
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That's what I used to do before Google Voice. Now unknown numbers cannot reach the phone without introducing themselves to call screening, and the spam list is blocked altogether. My list is growing larger almost daily, and I've never had a spam call picked up in so long that nowadays email spam in my inbox bothers me more than phone spam. They can sell my phone number all they want.
 
Just as bad if not worse than theft. Should throw the person responsible in jail.
 
I have to tell you something I've noticed as any security person might realize there's a balance between security and inconvenient and so far the U.S. is the most convenient country I know.
 
Since they know who bought the lists could they not charge / fine those companies for buying illegal property so to speak?
 
I'm sure there will be some kind of lawsuit. It'll probably be by the Department of Justice and T-mobile will really really feel the burn in their 2016 Q3 financials.
 
WBurchnall said:
I'm sure there will be some kind of lawsuit. It'll probably be by the Department of Justice and T-mobile will really really feel the burn in their 2016 Q3 financials.
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tmobile have been very co-operative. There is not alot a company can do if someone decides to copy and sell their data. I dont think tmobile will be punished too severly as long as they cooperate in tracking down who sold the info. It is the seller that needs the biggest punishment. There is talks of new laws to put custodial sentences on this instead of the present fine
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People that do this need to have their testicles/ovaries removed through their nostrils.
 
quixotic said:
That's what I used to do before Google Voice. Now unknown numbers cannot reach the phone without introducing themselves to call screening, and the spam list is blocked altogether. My list is growing larger almost daily, and I've never had a spam call picked up in so long that nowadays email spam in my inbox bothers me more than phone spam. They can sell my phone number all they want.
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Thanks for the tip. I signed up for an invite to Google Voice.
 
I bet the same thing happened to me before version bought alltel. I still get spam text that I have to reply to opt out of.
 
eeyrjmr said:
tmobile have been very co-operative. There is not alot a company can do if someone decides to copy and sell their data. I dont think tmobile will be punished too severly as long as they cooperate in tracking down who sold the info. It is the seller that needs the biggest punishment. There is talks of new laws to put custodial sentences on this instead of the present fine
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their is plenty they can do, go after the person who sold it, then go after the companies it was sold to, now, will that change the fact those companies how have the info, not likely, will said companies likely use the info, well that is a risk as customers can complain if they are contacted / spammed by said company..
 
MrGuvernment said:
their is plenty they can do, go after the person who sold it, then go after the companies it was sold to, now, will that change the fact those companies how have the info, not likely, will said companies likely use the info, well that is a risk as customers can complain if they are contacted / spammed by said company..
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please read what I wrote.. I was refering to what a company can do to stop such things occuring.

Plus anyway legally Tmobile cannot go after those responsible. THIS is a criminal case at the moment and thus in the hands of CID and co. Once the crown cases have finished T-mobile can start a civil action against those that stole the data and those that bought the data, but atm no Tmobile cannot do much except co-operate
 
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