{"id":5555,"date":"2018-09-19T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:28:21","slug":"t-mobile-unauthorized-data-capture-and-updates-to-the-official-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/19\/t-mobile-unauthorized-data-capture-and-updates-to-the-official-word\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile, unauthorized data capture and updates to the official word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I get to hang out with some very clever cryptographers at a bar about once a month. They make math-y jokes over my head, but demonstrate that best case is a stalemate where data is no longer significant before it\u2019s encryption theme has become significantly penetrable.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">T-Mobile announced an unauthorized capture of data. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The updates paint a picture almost as disturbing as the loss itself in that they show either a misunderstanding or a ~careful wording to diminish verbal impact~, followed by better disclosure.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Here are a few that stood out for ~beer spit-take~ potential with the cryptography nerds;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> \u201c<span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Because they weren\u2019t [compromised]. They were encrypted.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">may have included one or more of the following: name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number and account type (prepaid or postpaid).\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">about\u201d or \u201cslightly less than\u201d 3% of its 77 million customers.\u201d &#8230;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Trebuchet MS, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">so about &#8230;2 million&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a3qpk5\/t-mobile-hack-data-breach-api-customer-data\">https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a3qpk5\/t-mobile-hack-data-breach-api-customer-data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/customers\/6305378821<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get to hang out with some very clever cryptographers at a bar about once a month. They make math-y jokes over my head, but demonstrate that best case is a stalemate where data is no longer significant before it\u2019s encryption theme has become significantly penetrable. T-Mobile announced an unauthorized capture of data. 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