Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability
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We have been politely cautioned by Palm that any discussion of tethering during the Sprint exclusivity period (and perhaps beyond-we don't know yet) will probably cause Sprint to complain to Palm, and if that happened then Palm would be forced to react against the people running the IRC channel and this wiki.Yeah, that's pretty aggro for a company that needs to court all the developer support it can. We're not sure what'll happen after Sprint's exclusivity runs out, but we can't imagine any other carriers are going to be thrilled about hacked tethering options either, so we'd say Palm's going to keep the pressure on until unlocked GSM webOS devices hit the scene -- and we can almost guarantee that tethering hacks are going to make it into the wild regardless of Palm's actions.
Once again, T-Mobile has released a statement regarding the alleged hack into its systems last weekend, and it's backtracked a bit from the last one -- now, it's starting to sound like no data was stolen at all. Here's what we've got this time around from a company spokesperson:
After news broke of a possible breach into T-Mobile's systems over the weekend, subscribers were understandably concerned over claims that personal information (among other things) may have been pilfered by the offenders who later offered the data for sale to the carrier's competitors. An investigation has been launched, and so far, it sounds like T-Mobile is admitting some data was taken -- but that it wasn't enough to be of any concern to its customers. Work is ongoing to determine exactly what the hackers got their hands on and how, but it's a promising sign that subscribers don't need to step up fraud monitoring on their accounts. The full statement is below:
T-Mobile has yet to issue an official statement on the matter, but word on the street is that hackers have found their way into T-Mobile USA's inner workings and made off with a treasure trove of information, including subscriber data, which would make sense considering that parts of T-Mobile's website have been down for most of the day today. The exact nature of the breach is unclear, but the alleged hackers say they "have everything, their databases, confidential [sic] documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009." They go on to say that they've been in touch with the carrier's competitors trying to sell the data, but have (thankfully) been turned away, so now they're looking to hawk it to the highest bidder. If this is legit, we can't imagine that trying to sell the data in a public forum is the wisest plan -- but then again, we're not criminal masterminds, so maybe this is standard operating procedure. Here's hoping they're brought down quickly and T-Mob gets to the bottom of the breach.





