A hacker has stole the private data and two million customers of the Vodafone Germany ..In the mobile phone operator they say Thursday. The information has been compromised by the attacker included customer names address bank account numbers with birth data..
Vodafone has been discovered then stopped and attack the quickly filed charges..Vodafone has been said in statement. The attack is one of the only possible due to their insider knowledge and have been occurred deep in company IT infrastructured program..
Only German customers one of the company has been described as the subsidiary of British telecom provider were targeted Vodafone added .In the cyber criminal did not obtain the access of mobile phone numbers passwords PIN numbers or credit card details to plunder bank accounts.
However due to the mobile operator warned it is the customers that criminals who have got hold and the sensitive data could try to get extra information about passwords and credit cards through it called as phishing messages and fake emails.
This has been one of the largest cases of personal data thefts from German customers Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer in the internet security company F-secure told Reuters.
Meanwhile the suspect of the behind that have been hack has been identified his home was reportedly searched. The suspected IT systems of the administrator worked for a company contracted by Vodafone and had access to the company data and have been hacked into the server to obtain the information..Vodafone Germany has been spoke to the Alexander Leinhos said as cited by Deutsche Welle.
A Vodafone spokesman cited has been Wall Street Journal said the incident happened on September 5 but the company disclosed it was only on of the Thursday so as not to endanger the police investigation.
Vodafone deeply regrets the incident and apologizes to all the affected the operator said in a statement adding that it will be the directly inform 2 million victims.
In the coordination with the authorities Vodafone has been Germany now fully informing all the affected persons and supporting them in the avoiding possible adverse effects.
Vodafone has been 32 million mobile phone customers and more than 3 million telecommunication customers in Germany.
In a previous major data have been theft scandal that also has been involved in the Germany almost 80 million user accounts of Sony PlayStation of the Network were hacked more than two years ago.
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