{"id":244,"date":"2005-01-14T00:14:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=244"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:15:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:15:11","slug":"t-mobile-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile users beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been a T-Mobile customer within the past year, you&#8217;d better keep a careful watch on your credit reports, and change your voicemail access codes.   A hacker has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/10271\">had access to T-Mobile users&#8217; personal data, e-mail and voicemail pins for at least a year<\/a>, including access to the e-mail and account info of Secret Service agents, and even the photos taken and shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/promos\/sidekickII.asp?WT.mc_n=Skick2_index&#038;WT.mc_t=OnsiteAd\">Sidekick<\/a> users:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions last October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms. The informant also produced evidence that Jacobsen was behind an offer to provide T-Mobile customers&#8217; personal information to identity thieves through an Internet bulletin board, according to court records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s really abhorrent is the apparent hush-hush nature in which this case was handled.  Millions of people are potential identity theft victims, and presumably to avoid bad publicity, T-Mobile seems to have tried hard to keep this on the down-low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been a T-Mobile customer within the past year, you&#8217;d better keep a careful watch on your credit reports, and change your voicemail access codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}