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1 December 2013 11:50

again comes Vodafone because abgefischter data into talk: Hackers have published 70,000 SMS from Icelandic customers

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cybercriminals have attacked in Iceland and published 70,000 SMS Vodafone. This also includes text messages from prominent politicians.

Vodafone has once again become the victim of a hacker attack. Unknown attacked the website of the Mobile Group and put text messages into the network. Vodafone confirmed the attack, which took place for the night of Saturday. The site with the published customer-SMS was already closed. “It looks as if the hacker had access to sensitive data,” Vodafone said in a press release. Together with computer experts you would now consider how great was the extent of the attack.

total of 70,000 customers made public after reports of the Icelandic Broadcasting RÚV SMS, including messages of ministers and members of parliament. Also, were accessible personal customer information and thousands of passwords. Vodafone customers are advised to change their password.

Vodafone problems with hackers had had a few weeks ago. In September criminals had masse fished sensitive data from the customer database of the mobile group. Two million master data of the German Vodafone customers were then stolen -. Including addresses, date of birth, bank account number and routing number

 

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