If a comprehensive security report created and published by renowned researchers Eric Taylor and Blake Welsh is anything to go by, it would appear that MetroPCS had a major bug embedded in its website until this month when it was found and fixed. The error made it easy for any user to gain access to sensitive information for over 10 million current and past subscribers. The only tool needed to get hold of this data was a phone number. Pretty scary stuff, huh?
At this point, there’s no evidence suggesting that anyone discovered the defect before the researchers did and accessed customers’ personal information, and now, thanks to Taylor and Welsh, nobody will be able to abuse the glitch to do so. I find it quite frightening just how many companies have been at the centre of data protection scandals this year, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop anytime soon.
Source: Motherboard
Via: Engadget
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