T-Mobile responds to Paris Hilton Sidekick hacking
posted February 21st 2005 6:52PM
It's not much more than just the usual type of generic press statement you'd expect after something like this, but T-Mobile has just issued an official response to the whole Paris Hilton hacked Sidekick "incident":
T-Mobile is investigating the reported disclosure of Paris Hilton's information.
T-Mobile's computer forensics and security team is actively investigating to determine how Ms. Hilton's information was obtained. This includes the possibility that someone had access to one of Ms. Hilton's devices and/or knew her account password.
Given the sensitivity of the situation, and to protect our customers' information, we are not able to provide specific details of the investigation at this point.
Obviously no one seems to know for certain how this all happened, but they've got to be praying right now that it turns out that she accidentally gave someone her password.
The Links to the Paris Hilton video are the only reason that Paris is even so popular now. At least she can act like she gives a damn. The movie has sold like over a million copies at the Paris Hilton site.
The Links to the Paris Hilton video are the only reason that Paris is even so popular now. At least she can act like she gives a damn. The movie has sold like over a million copies at the Paris Hilton site.
i fully agree some pics looks too good to be true. It could be however, that they are actually professionnal quality pictures gathered with low-res personal shots in the picture book.
Anyway there's another thing i just don't get. Why is T-Mobile actually reacting? I mean, making such an announcement implicitely means that disclosed data actually came from the user's personal account. Would they say so just to cover themselves from just any "MS windows level" security flaw? Would they say so without checking first? And then again, are they entitled to check someone's personal data?
On the other hand, making no announcement at all could have been understood either way : they checked and found no reason to make a deal out of what would obviously be a fraud; or the security flaw is just to huge/obvious/embarassing for them to comment.
Commenting the event the way they did sounds weird to me.
The Links to the Paris Hilton video are the only reason that Paris is even so popular now. At least she can act like she gives a damn. The movie has sold like over a million copies at the Paris Hilton site.
I think it fucking hilarious that someone hacked her. if I could hack into to anyones phone it would be hers u know she's probally got some nude kinky pics on her phone so that's why its cool that they hacked into her shit!
i have a Sidekick2. As far as the Paris Hilton situation all she had to do was drop her phone or leave it with any individual and they couldve gotten her password. In every my T-mobile when u sign in and u forgot your password they ask you to type your celluar # and then they automatically send your password to your phone via text message. Which this process only takes about 30 seconds. This was how Paris Hilton's Sidekick2 was hacked. Any human with half a brain can figure this process out. You dont need to be a special computer hacker or genius. All you need is to be able to read.