T-Mobile UK Employees Sold Customers' Information 65
angry tapir writes "Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who worked for the competition, according to T-Mobile and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office. Criminal charges are being prepared. 'Many thousands' of customers' account details, millions of records, were sold to several brokers for substantial amounts of money, the ICO said. In an announcement (PDF) from the ICO, the agency does not name the operator involved, but T-Mobile acknowledged that it had alerted ICO about the data breach. The BBC reports that after the other mobile operators said they were not the subject of the investigation, T-Mobile confirmed its involvement."
Re:T-Mobile Customer (Score:5, Funny)
"But the ETF is so high becomes he loves me..."
Re:Not exclusive to T Mobile (Score:4, Funny)
If you read the article, someone has.
I know, I just come here for the stellar conversations.
Re:Vote with your feet (Score:4, Funny)
Contact the ICO and find out if your data was included in the sold information.
Then sue T-Mobile for not protecting your personal data.
Then after the court cases, sue the T-Mobile staff who stole the data, the brokers who sold the data, and the other network operators who bought the data.
T-Mobile customers could if they play this right make a tidy sum of money from sueing the people involved. Remember to get in early before the other customers and ex-customers clean up.
Of course the real way to handle this is to put a price (say, minimum annual contract price x number of customers) and then use **AA accounting methods and sue those involved for copyright infringement of the data :-)