The German Telekom is the next company, be confused with the customer through the publication of password data in the network. The records, however, were probably not captured directly at the Telekom, but about phishing.
The German Telekom gets her clients on the password change after records current login information have surfaced on the Internet. A sample of about 90 combinations of T-Online-mail address and password have shown that real customer data are under, the group said on Monday. For total number of records offered on the Internet there are different: There should be 64000-120000
There is no evidence that a telecom system had been hacked, the company stressed.. The data were probably captured via phishing attacks among users themselves. But also talk that had affected several companies. The customer whose data had arisen to the telecoms have to know it said. “We want to use the event to promote a regular exchange of passwords,” the Deutsche Telekom Board of privacy and rights, Thomas Kremer said.
Many users set same passwords
Last login details were released en masse for various online services on the web. So were access information for millions of accounts with Twitter, Tumblr, MySpace or LinkedIn in circulation. Here the criminals also played into the hands that many users use the same combination of email address and password for different services. To bring them into a captured data access to multiple platforms. This is a practice that warn of the IT security experts always.
Nevertheless seem prominent figures from the tech industry at least to heed the advice not always. This enabled the hacker group “OurMine” to hijack the profiles of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter and the photo sharing options for a short time – reportedly with an old password for the career network LinkedIn. Even the founder of the music service Spotify, Daniel Ek, hit it. And at night on Monday, the hacker could in the profile of Google CEO Sundar Pichai penetrate in the knowledge platform Quora how the tech blog “The Next Web” and “The Verge” reported with screenshots.
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