PC Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thieves have hijacked sensitive data on millions of Deutsche Telekom mobile phone customers, the German company has acknowledged in its second major security scandal this year.
eWeek (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Deutsche Telekom says it reported the theft of names, addresses, cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses and dates of birth of millions of mobile phone customers in 2006 and found no evidence the information was abused. German government investigators are analyzing potential danger from the data leak. - FRANKFURT (Reuters) Thieves have hijacked sensitive data on millions of Deutsche Telekom mobile phone...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S.-listed stocks of European-based companies Nokia Corp. , Vodafone Group PLC and Deutsche Telekom AG led the telecommunications group in mixed Tuesday trades. Nokia jumped almost 4%, DT rose 3% and Vodafone was up 3.3%. Among the few decliners was Sprint Nextel Corp. , down nearly 2%, and Nortel Networks Corp. , which sank 8.6%. Sector stocks took their cues from the...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S.-listed stocks of European-based companies Nokia Corp., Vodafone Group PLC and Deutsche Telekom AG led the telecommunications group in mixed Tuesday action.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
In its second major security scandal this year, German company Deutsche Telekom said thieves have hijacked sensitive data on millions of mobile phone customers.A report by Der Spiegel magazine released ahead of publication on Monday documents the incident that stems from a theft of data in 2006 that only came to light recently.
Newswireless.net (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
It happened in 2006; Thieves "hijacked sensitive data" on millions of Deutsche Telekom mobile phone customers. DT reported the loss to police, since when nothing has happened.
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom’s mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile announced on Saturday that they lost personal information of about 17 million customers when they lost a disk containing the information back in 2006. After a report in a German News magazine Der Spiegel that the personal data was being offered for sale on the internet, T-Mobile came clean [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Deutsche Telekom admitted to retaining details of supervisory board members' phone calls in a further data protection slip-up, prompting calls for new, wide-ranging measures to protect customers' privacy.
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has lost the data of around 17 million T-Mobile Germany customers in the spring of 2006. The loss includes names, addresses and cell phone numbers, in some cases, also include the date of birth or e-mail addresses. The records do not contain bank details, credit card numbers or call data, according to Deutsche Telekom in a press release after German magazine Der Spiegel...
Krunker (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Here’s some rather disturbing news - Deutsche Telekom admitted on Saturday that the company lost confidential information for 17 million T-Mobile clients. The data was stolen way back in 2006 and involved data including telephone numbers, birthdates, addresses, and email addresses. According to spokesman Frank Domagala, no banking information was taken and “according to [...] Technorati Tags: T-Mobile...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The chief of Germany's Deutsche Telekom has apologized for the theft of personal data of millions of its customers. In an interview with a German newspaper, Rene Obermann described the theft of information, including phone numbers and addresses of some 17 million customers of the company's T-Mobile unit, as an ''annoying incident''. On Saturday, the German telecom giant confirmed a media report that...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Via Deutsche Welle . Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that personal information from 17 million of its mobile phone customers was stolen in 2006, including secret telephone numbers of high-profile politicians and celebrities. Deutsche Telekom said the stolen data includes customer mobile phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth and, in some cases, email addresses. Bank information or credit card numbers...
Tech Startups 3.0 (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
"Google, in co-operation with Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile, announced the first product using the search engine company's own mobile phone operating system, Android. Techies have known about the "gPhone" (as it has been called) for almost a year, and have been working with prototype software to create applications for it - but this is the first time a real Google Phone has been put on sale for ordinary...
Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The Deutsche Telekom’s purchase of OTE gets approval from the European Commission. OTE works as the fixed line in Greece and Romania and as a mobile operator, in name of Cosmote in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. The European Commission while investigating about the acquisition, no competition concerns were observed. Deutsche Telekom’s CE Rene Obermann, sees the descision [...]
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
BRUSSELS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Germany's Deutsche Telekom won permission from EU competition regulators on Thursday to buy control of Greek telecoms group OTE .
