17 million T-Mobile German records stolen

Steve over at The Hot Aisle is rather unimpressed to note that according to Germany’s Der Spiegel, 17 million T-Mobile customer records were stolen by thieves.

But it was back in 2006.

German Police have reportedly recovered copies of the data.

But some bright spark — or a few bright sparks — are thought to still be holding copies of the data.

Not good.

Not good at all.

What can you do when this sort of thing happens? Hardly anything. Watch your bank statements, I suppose. Think twice about receiving calls from folk claiming to be from T-Mobile and wanting to ‘update their records’ with your bank details.

I wonder what kind of security mobile operators have in place to prevent this kind of thing happening…