Personal details of about 2 million Vodafone Germany customers were exposed in a hack making international headlines. Hackers tapped into an information pool of: addresses, bank account numbers and dates of birth.
“…This attack was highly complex and conducted with inside knowledge of our most secure internal systems,” the company said in a statement.
Many criminals might try to use this information offline as well as online, so be extra cautious of any suspicious activity, like incoming phone calls or emails e.g claiming to be your bank.
In these days of spcial media interaction it begs the quesiton whether servers that contain critical data, such as personally identifiable information that was stolen in the Vodafone hack, should be accessible on the public Internet.
Can organizations really expect to keep up with the ever-changing set of vulnerabilities, patches, and zero-day exploits that leave this kind of information at risk? Vodpahone is hardly IT llliterate, and if they can be hit then the rest of us need to take notice and think again about our data protection strategies.
