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."
T-Mobile Customer (Score:4, Interesting)
I like T-Mobile, especially because they have great customer support. I have a friend who got overbilled by a lot, and decided to settle instead of going to court over it. My experience with the company though has been pretty good. I'm staying with them.
Vote with your feet (Score:3, Interesting)
Not exclusive to T Mobile (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Not exclusive to T Mobile (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:T-Mobile Customer (Score:2, Interesting)
Are you a TMobile UK (or US or Germany or wherever else TMobile do business) customer?
I'm a TMobile UK customer (because I wanted the G1), and my personally customer support experiences with them have been pretty terrible. They refused to pause my contract when I came traveling (whereas other UK telecommunications companies will do so), they lowered the price of the contract a week after I bought my G1 and wouldn't let me downgrade to the lower tariff and every time I talk to them, they just seem unwilling to help...
I'll be happy when my contract expires in February and I'll be able to move back to Orange or O2...
But maybe that's just me... Maybe they just hate me... :(
Taking measures (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Sold to competitors (Score:2, Interesting)