T-Mobile Account Privacy Gone

Christopher Graham, investigator, and Information Comissioner

If you have T-Mobile, it’s likely some ad company has all your personal info.

That’s right – if you have T-Mobile, there’s a chance that your account data has been sold to a third-party, who participate in acts such as cold calling, text spam, etc. They didn’t just sell a few, they sold millions of user account details for large sums of money. This is an outrage on the highest level – a mobile operator who you trust, selling your personal details to someone you have no idea of, who cold-call you on the last month or two of your contract.

An investigation was conducted by Christopher Graham, after information of third-party dealings was in the talks, upon the mobile operators. O2, Orange, Vodafone, 3, and Virgin all reported innocence, T-Mobile stepped forward due to threats of prosecution and fines.

It’s shocking that something like this could have been allowed.

BBC tell us:

“Mr Graham, who was appointed earlier this year as the watchdog responsible for safeguarding personal information, said the data breach was the biggest of its kind.

He added that the case illustrated why there needed to be a prison sentence to prevent people from selling private data to third parties.”