[Merged] Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
12-01-2005, 17:06
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Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.
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Im not sure if this includes UK customers (would they share the same server databases?)
Edit :::: Forgot the link http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
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12-01-2005, 17:18
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
Wow.........cool! 
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12-01-2005, 17:20
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
Now that is scary.
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12-01-2005, 17:25
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
Sweet move...
Lucky sod.
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12-01-2005, 17:38
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
woah reading that i must say highly impressive by an individual, i can see why the secret service want to hire him!
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12-01-2005, 17:39
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
Scary. I suspect our Data Protection Law would stop any UK customer's details being on that server though (assuming the server wasn't in Europe).
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12-01-2005, 18:00
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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Originally Posted by scastle
Scary. I suspect our Data Protection Law would stop any UK customer's details being on that server though (assuming the server wasn't in Europe).
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Not if the T&C said information may be transferred outside the EU though (most do).
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12-01-2005, 19:25
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
Wasn't it the servers for a particular device called a 'Sidekick'? Not sure if that exists over here, I've not heard of it.
Anyway, very interesting and instructive.
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12-01-2005, 19:30
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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Sweet move...
Lucky sod.
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Indeed!
I wonder what he knows 
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12-01-2005, 19:37
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
ir raises the question whether security services should hire people like him, instead of doing jail time he will help fellow security experts in looking for holes in products/servers.
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12-01-2005, 19:43
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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Originally Posted by kronas
ir raises the question whether security services should hire people like him, instead of doing jail time he will help fellow security experts in looking for holes in products/servers.
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Well it would be a question of can they trust hackers to secure a system when all a large percentage want to do is find the security holes and see what they can do that would benefit them personally. There are already a number of ex-hackers who work to help secure systems now but there are a lot more still trying to break systems 
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12-01-2005, 19:48
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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Originally Posted by Paul
Well it would be a question of can they trust hackers to secure a system when all a large percentage want to do is find the security holes and see what they can do that would benefit them personally. There are already a number of ex-hackers who work to help secure systems now but there are a lot more still trying to break systems |
When I studied security* as part of my degree, we were told that employing hackers is a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, they are in the best position to know how to get into a system illegally (and think like other hackers). On the other hand, can you trust them?
* The subject was fun, but rather embarassing as I was already working part time in the Labs, and every time the lecturer told us about a new trick, he pointed me out and said "but don't try it here as you'll have him (meaning me) to deal with". This happened at least once a week..
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13-01-2005, 05:09
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
What a boy 
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13-01-2005, 08:36
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Re: Hacker has access to T-Mobile servers for over a year!!!!
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On the other hand, can you trust them?
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If you give them enough interesting work to do, yes. Most smart boy hackers like him are doing it for the kick and the excitement, rather than financial gain. So if you give them that kick and excitement in a white hat context, they should be absorbed enough in that.
And of course, if they do stray, you smack them with that and whatever they did initially that you waived to give them a job.
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22-02-2005, 15:31
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T-mobile hacked
It looks like the hacker who obtained Paris Hilton's contacts obtained a little more.
Apparently he was able to access a lot of customer's details and even Secret Service emails (which is more worrying).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01...ates_t-mobile/
Still, he is working for the Secret Service now..
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