Security News T-Mobile Austria stores passwords in plain text because its security is 'amazingly good'

[Danielx64]

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https://www.neowin.net/news/t-mobile-austria-stores-passwords-in-plain-text-because-its-security-is-amazingly-good

If you had difficulty wrapping your head around how third-party apps could access your information on Facebook so easily, you'll probably get a migraine after reading this. It appears that T-Mobile Austria stores customer passwords in plain text in its database because its security is "amazingly good".

Source: T-Mobile Austria stores passwords in plain text because its security is 'amazingly good'

I really do hope that this is a joke and not true.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

T-Mobile is my carrier, but I've known long ago they were 100% atrocious on security.

About 3 years ago I found a backdoor on their voicemail system that allowed me to listen to anyone's voicemail on any phone on T-Mobile's network. When I realized they used the last 4 of your mobile number as your pin code and DID NOT authenticate it was coming from your mobile device I was like..

So I take extreme caution with them. I disable all of their garbage services/apps on my phone and use encrypted SMS and Phone Calling apps. So my T-Mobile accounts look like I have zero calls and messages on my phone as a result. We also practice extreme mobile hygiene with microphone and camera blockers, etc.

T-Mobile is reckless.

 

[mekelek]

"what are you gonna do, stab me?"
this is hilarious

 

[upnorth]

Wonder if they co-work/share this kind of less bright ideas with the people in Finland? 130,000 Finnish user data exposed in third largest data breach ever happened in the country

Possible solution?

Zap zap zap they go

A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans

 

[Danielx64]

Update: T-Mobile Austria Confirms They Stores All Customer Passwords In Clear Text - UPDATED

 

[SumTingWong]

I can smell class action lawsuits if hackers manage to get their hands on the T-Mobile customer account password because T-Mobile stored password in a plain text.

 

[Danielx64]

I can smell class action lawsuits if hackers manage to get their hands on the T-Mobile customer account password because T-Mobile stored password in a plain text.

I can smell class action even before hackers get the database.

 

[SumTingWong]

I can smell class action even before hackers get the database.

This is going to be another Equifax breach incident .

 

[spaceoctopus]

Passwords stored in plain text is a big security red flag!It's extreme amateurism, especially from a company like T-Mobile.

 

[Daviworld]

Oh god, more headaches from my phone company. But, like ForgottenSeer 58943 I practice extreme mobile hygiene. I remove the OS, any tmoble apps or services, block the camera and microphone, and block internet access using iptables to any app's I am not explicitly using

 

[Deleted member 178]

nananana all of you are overreacting !! T-Mobile store fake numbers in plain text, those a result of the real 4 numbers encrypted and renewed every milliseconds by 9 quantum computers and an Amiga 500. Then the numbers are printed in a post-it where each number is composed of thousands of QR-Code that can only be read by a blackphone with NSA and SHIELD grade specs and privacy.

"T-Mobile, because we like when a (data) plan comes together !"