This is the first I have heard of this, and being a former T-Mobile customer it makes me wonder… Why? Shouldn’t I have been informed of this breach before reading about at at Yahoo! News?

Europe’s leading telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, admitted Saturday that it has lost confidential data belonging to 17 million T-mobile clients.

The theft, in 2006, which is now subject to a judicial inquiry, involved telephone numbers, dates of birth, addresses and email addresses, subsidiary T-Mobile said in a statement.

Spokesman Frank Domagala said that bank details were not attached, and that “according to our information, even though these details have been put up for sale on the black market, there has not been a buyer.”

It’s not like they knew nothing about me, or I was buying landscape supplies or Moen faucets from them. They had all my personal information, and I think I had a right to know they lost it a long time ago.

Note: It was brought to my attention that the information which was lost by Deutsche Telekom does not include any U.S. customer data, as T-Mobile USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of DT, but maintains separate customer data. That’s good news, if you live in the U.S.

Comments are closed.