Friday, December 9, 2011

Telstra Violates Thousands of Privacy Codes

On Thursday, Australian communications company Telstra was accused of violating privacy codes with customers' information.  Apparently anyone can search for the username and password of any Telstra members by looking through a search engine like Google when typing in "Telstra Bundles request search."  Some are even saying credit report information could be found.  Telstra quickly took down this website when news broke out yesterday but precautions are still being made as to information that is still being leaked.  Telstra sold roughly 700,000 new account product bundles last year but this news might effect their future success as members will probably be less likely to join knowing their private information is unsafe.
-du 12/09/11


       Other sites with this story:
       Adelaide Now
       The Age
       Help Net Security