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Vodafone suffers data security breach

Category: Data security | 10 January, 2011

A breach of security in Australia has allegedly led to the publication of the private information of hundreds of Vodafone customers. The firm has announced it is investigating a data security breach but denied that personal information and credit card details of its customers are available on the internet.
Nigel Dews, chief executive of the company, said the issue appears to have resulted from someone sharing a password.

"It appears to be a one-off breach and we have got our internal investigators looking into it right now. We reset our passwords last night and we are resetting them every 24 hours until that investigation is complete," Mr Dews said.

Recently internet server Mozilla created an add-on that inadvertently exposed inactive customers to a data security breach. The breach revealed the email addresses, first and last names and an MD5 hash representation of their password. To address the issue Mozilla has disabled the affected accounts until the users reset their passwords.

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