Experian hacked, 15 million T-Mobile customers are put at risk

[Conniff]

Experian, one of the largest credit agency data brokers in the world, has been hacked. Some 15 million people who used the company’s services, among them customers of cellular company T-Mobile who had applied for Experian credit checks, may have had their private information exposed, the company confirmed on Thursday.

 

Information from the hack includes names, addresses, and social security, driver’s license and passport numbers. The license and passport numbers were in an encrypted field, but Experian said that encryption may also have been compromised.

 

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This appears to be US but could it also affect the UK and is the UK servers of Experian any more secure than the US.

 

 

Clearly, the most important victims here are the T-Mobile users who have had their personal details exposed through no fault of their own, and are potentially running the risk of identity theft.

[unclebulgaria67]

The danger of having these huge databases of information. No system is hack proof.