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T-Mobile employee stole and sold customers' personal data

By Flora Graham on 18 November 2009, 11:27am

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Britain's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), has spilled the beans that an employee of T-Mobile flogged hundreds of thousands of customers' data to other networks, our sister site ZDNet UK reports.

If you have a T-Mobile contract that's about to come up for renewal, and you receive a cold call from another network, they may have gotten your deets from the leak -- but there's no way to know. If you do want to switch, try comparing contracts using an independent retailer such as Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U, or a comparison site such as BillMonitor or our partner Omio.

David Meyer has the full story at ZDNet UK: Watchdog reveals illegal sale of phone users' data.

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