T-Mobile: Employee data theft leads to U.K.'s largest data breach.Employee sold millions of customer records to data brokers.
“An employee of wireless service provider T-Mobile sold millions of customer database records to data brokers, leading to the biggest breach ever seen in the U.K., according to news reports.
The U.K. Information Commissioners Office (ICO), a British privacy watchdog organization, revealed yesterday that a mobile service operator had lost "thousands" of customer records sold by an employee who had access to the service provider's database. The employee earned "substantial sums" for selling the records, which were used by rival providers to get customers to switch services, the ICO says.”
The Guardian, Nov 18, 2009
T-Mobile: Employee data theft detected in real-time, U.K.’s largest data theft was blocked. Employee was stopped from selling millions of customer records.
An employee of wireless service provider T-Mobile tried to sell millions of customer database records to data brokers, but was stopped doing so.
LogScreen, a Managed Security Solutions Provider providing log monitoring and analysis to T-Mobile detected the theft from T-Mobile’s databases in real-time and alerted its customer of this security breach within minutes.
T-Mobile could immediately identify the fraudster, launching its emergency procedures and together with the British police apprehend the data thief. Further damage or financial loss for T-Mobile’s customers was successfully prevented.