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Deutsche Telekom Passport hole exposes 120,000

Unknown   on 30 July 2004 - 09:19 · 4 comments & 969 views

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Deutsche Telekom this week was forced to suspend all activities of its Online Business Service Operation Centre (OBSOC), a German version of the Microsoft's Passport system, which enables customers to order and pay for online services and products. German Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Europe's largest hacker group, discovered a security hole that they fear may already have been exploited. Hackers could have had access to records of businesses and their customers and change all kinds of data for almost a year. The security hole was discovered by ICT expert Dirk Heringhaus, who accidentally entered the wrong client number and discovered he had access to records of other businesses.

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(1 reply) #1 kainashi on 30 Jul 2004 - 13:33
good to see they're going to get it fixed before anything serious happens.
#1.1 bilbobaggins on 30 Jul 2004 - 18:40
You certainly mean would be good if M$ didn't release crapware that compromises data of hundreds of thousands of people.

Yeah, I think you ment that way. Anything else would nothing but ridiculous.
#2 cscheatsforyou on 30 Jul 2004 - 14:46
Ja,Ich Liebe Deutsche Telekom
#3 el22 on 30 Jul 2004 - 17:33
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The security hole was discovered by ICT expert Dirk Heringhaus, who accidentally entered the wrong client number and discovered he had access to records of other businesses.
Hmmm... "expert" and "accidentally discovered" don't match there

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