Three hacked: ‘Inside job’ puts six million customers’ private data in jeopardy

UK telco Three has been hacked, with up to six million customers’ data sets now understood to be under threat.

Three confirmed the breach on Thursday, revealing that hackers used an employee log-in to gain entry into its database of customers eligible for a phone upgrade.

Data accessed includes customers’ names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth, but Three claimed that no financial information could have been accessed.

Those affected, which could be up to two-thirds of Three’s nine million customers, have not yet been informed.

The hackers allegedly took the information from Three’s upgrade database and used it to issue eight new phones. It is alleged that these phones were then intercepted on their way to a Three customer whose account was used to generate the request, and probably sold on for profit. For the full article click here 

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