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Who performed the attack is yet not free from doubt (photo: picture alliance / dpa). Thursday 12 September 2013
data from numerous customers of the telecom giant Vodafone have fallen into the hands of a hacker. The group is called “high criminal energy” and “insider knowledge”. A suspect had been identified.
perpetrator has stolen the master data of two million customers of Vodafone Germany. This was announced by the company. The data included the name of the Vodafone customer, address, date of birth, gender, bank routing number and account number that have fallen into the hands of the attacker. “This attack was only possible with high criminal energy, insider knowledge and found hidden deep in the company instead of IT infrastructure,” said Vodafone.
security is that the perpetrators have no access to credit card information, passwords, PIN numbers, mobile phone numbers or data connection, the company said. “Vodafone regrets the incident very much and invites all interested parties to apologize,” it said in the statement. These are currently being informed by letter.
The incident had recently occurred, as Vodafone. “The authorities had initially Vodafone asked to provide any information to the public in order not to jeopardize the investigation. Meanwhile, they have identified a suspect and made a search for him.”
It is hardly possible for the offender to directly access the stolen data to the bank accounts of those affected, the report said. However, with additional phishing attacks could be, for example, fake emails trying to retrieve more information such as passwords and credit card information. “Vodafone therefore advises its customers to take extra care when possible telephone or e-mail inquiries in which they are asked to hand over personal information such as passwords or credit card information,” the company said.
Source: n-tv.de
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