Also on Sprint but was also on t-mo a long time ago, not sure if they keep their data for more than a decade but the only thing that would be valid would be name, DOB, SS number, everything else has changed a couple of times since then.
>Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer’s mobile device. > >On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. In a statement published on its website today, the company confirmed it had suffered an intrusion involving “some T-Mobile data,” but said it was too soon in its investigation to know what was stolen and how many customers might be affected.
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>The hacker(s) claim the purloined data also includes IMSI and IMEI data for 36 million customers. These are unique numbers embedded in customer mobile devices that identify the device and the SIM card that ties that customer’s device to a telephone number. > >“If you want to verify that I have access to the data/the data is real, just give me a T-Mobile number and I’ll run a lookup for you and return the IMEI and IMSI of the phone currently attached to the number and any other details,” @und0xxed said. “All T-Mobile USA prepaid and postpaid customers are affected; Sprint and the other telecoms that T-Mobile owns are unaffected.” > >Other databases allegedly accessed by the intruders included one for prepaid accounts, which had far fewer details about customers. >...
If there is one group of people I try to be nicer to it is those in the service area. Tipping well (as long as the service was good or above) in addition to being nice goes a long way towards making their day a little better.
I am going to have to look further into this language, it seems very interesting. While not quite a RAD language (at least what I am used to) I do like the small size and cross platform compile from a single platform.
Why, when I read this do I get an image in my head of a ninja going plant to plant in the middle of the night, abducting the hookworms and delivering them to the ants as though they were a treat the gods above after having delivered their sacrificial ant earlier in the day as tribute to the worm providing deity.