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January 12, 2005

T-mobile servers compromised for a year

According to the Security Focus report Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, 21-year old Nicolas Jacobsen had full access to sensitive information on over 16 million T-Mobile customers - for over a year.

Able retrieve information from T-Mobile server, such as social security numbers, date of birth, and even voicemail PINs and passwords, he was also allegedly able to retrieve secret service documents and distribute them in IRC chatrooms.

The US secret services, and T-Mobile, are apparently refusing to comment on the case, which comes up before Californian law on February 14th of this year.

Posted by brian_turner at January 12, 2005 10:10 PM

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