Monday, December 15, 2008

Telecom restricts their services.

How nice that the services their customers telephone connections can manage online. How bad that when the hacker could also Telekom: Because T-Com customers in part to considerable sums have been cheated, stuck to a portion of their telecom services.
  Sometimes less is more - especially when one's own security services can no longer guarantee: Telekom has been months of problems with the data. One such problem is the lack of hedging their customer portal through which these functions of their phone lines can configure.
This may be evidence of the blogs, however, since hackers months, the telecom customers to bring their money by their calls over expensive abroad Call divert routes.
Telekom is the problem apparently known. It has already responded - with a shutdown of functions. How can millions of T-Com customers for weeks not call diverts more for their telephone numbers on the customer portal on the Internet: The pink giant has disabled the corresponding services to more fraud by hackers to prevent.
Off what you do not get repaired
In several cases, the blogs were present unsuspecting telecom customers within a few days with foreign fee of up to thousands of euros charged. So far, said the telecom, are "a few hundred customers" by the hacker attacks affected. "Unfortunately," there was "always attempts" to "penetrate our systems, to manipulate or other damage," it says in letters to affected customers.
In order "to avoid further abuse," was the establishment of call diversions in the Internet portal customers temporarily blocked. Falsely charged should be refunded.
Whether the transaction in connection with the 17 million stolen customer information from T-Mobile, call center data stolen or poorly secured distribution portals, is open. What is certain is that the recent mishap has not been on the special website for telecom data appeared.

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