Customers at T-Mobile UK have been found to have been selling customer information to data brokers who work on behalf of other cellular phone companies in the UK.Obviously T-Mobile wasn’t aware that this was happening. However they needed to put more projections in place to ensure that this didn’t happen. Hopefully other companies will learn from this data breach and ensure that their employees aren’t selling off customer data.  I can’t stress enough that this wasn’t an external break-in.  This was employees selling customer data which they got from the customer management system.

I also hope that the prosecution of people responsible for this data theft and sale makes the next person think twice about doing this.  As the case moves forward I’ll be sure to post updates here.

Denny