Monday 16 September 2013

Hacker Group Responsible for Vodafone-attack

After the announcement of the data-harvesting at Vodafone Germany there is now a letter claiming responsibility for the attack, were copied from the data of 2 million people.
A hacker group called "Team_L4w", assumes the responsibility for the attack and stressed that the said by law enforcement suspects, in which a search was conducted, was innocent. The authors of the letter claiming to be self-conscious. The NSA and the Scotland Yard trying for years to expose it, but what is futile. "We know what we're doing! Is a graduate level are personnel on!" Write the hackers. However, we can not confirm whether the group is actually responsible.
According to information from Blogger Carsten Knobloch were published , Team_L4w also has data from the Vodafone Hack circulated on the Internet, this could not be confirmed, however. Earlier pastebin releases the self-proclaimed leader of the group, signed "B3n" arouse more doubts. "We suspect that they are freeloaders," Vodafone also told heise Security. An e-mail containing the letter did not get the company contrary to the allegations of the hacking group. Even the law enforcement agencies had been informed of this fact.
According to Vodafone people are also affected, which now do not have a current contract with the company. For tax purposes, the entity should save the master data of former customers. The server with this data it was thus separated from other infrastructure, that it contained no information about whether the records belong to the respective active or terminated contracts. Vodafone had decided to write to all affected persons at once to quickly as possible to inform everyone whose data was affected. It had former customers therefore receive the same letter as customers with active contracts.

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