The Secret Service trusted them, but they and 16.3 million customers were wrong. Apparently, last year a hacker gained complete access to T-mobile’s customer database (with the exception of credit card numbers) and accessed everything from social security numbers, to passwords and PINs, to Sidekick photos, to Secret Service documents transmitted over the T-mobile network. The thing that bothers me the most was that this breach was never publicly announced until now, a year later, and that from the time the USSS notified T-mobile about the breach (March) to the time the company “confirmed” it (late July, according to the article) was four months. Not only that, but he apparently wasn’t shut down or shut out until October.
Fortunately, I wasn’t a T-mobile customer until September.