Deutsche Telekom customers are apparently victims of cybercriminals. In so-called darknet records were surfaced with current login information, whereupon the Telekom their customers calling for password change. A sample of about 90 combinations of T-Online e-mail address and password have shown that real customer data were lower, the company said.
hackers or phishing attack?
at present, a total of tens of thousands of customer data from different companies are waiting in this hidden and encrypted area of the Internet to customers. The Telekom had turned the security authorities, complaint and customers whose data were available, “to know”.
There is currently no evidence indicating that a telecom system had been hacked, stressed the company. The data were probably captured via phishing attacks among users themselves. But also talk that several companies are concerned.
Affected customers are informed
The customer whose data had arisen to Telekom 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.
Over the past few months were masse login information was released for various online services on the web – so access information for millions of accounts with Twitter, Tumblr, MySpace or LinkedIn
Dangerous. passwords for multiple use
where 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, prominent figures from the tech sector seem 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
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