T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data has been stolen from the telecommunication operator’s servers, a company spokesman said Monday.
On Saturday, a message about T-Mobile was posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by people who wrote they’d unsuccessfully tried to sell the data to T-Mobile’s competitors. They wrote they’d pitched the information to the wrong e-mail addresses, but were now willing to sell the data to anyone. Full Disclosure describes itself as an unmoderated forum where people can post information on security vulnerabilities.
“We have everything — their databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009,” read the message. “We are offering them for the highest bidder.” [Via Yahoo! Tech]
In today’s “Internet Age” it is ever more important for companies to safe guard their information, the only likely competitive edge companies have. Fortune 100 companies have a Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer in place, but how many small and mid-sized firms take their network data and security seriously? My guess, not too many, and that’s the very problem our new “Web Czar” will likely face on day 1.
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