T-Mobile employee stole and sold customers' personal data

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

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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powermond 18 November, 2009 12:17

I was getting calls of this sort weeks after beginning my contract with T-Mobile so I'm not entirely surprised that they've been lax with security of personal details but am surprised at the scale of it.

Although I've been fairly happy with every other aspect of their service this may be enough to make me switch...

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