T-Mobile suffers yet another black eye thanks to data breach

If T-Mobile is trying to drive themselves out of business they are doing a pretty good job. First there was the great Sidekick Nightmare, which caused most U.S. users of the device to lose their data and the company to temporarily halt sales, and then a few weeks ago T-Mobile customers had to contend with an outage that left them unable to make calls or send text messages. Now it gets even worse.

The company is now reporting that it has discovered a data breach at its U.K. headquarters. Staff there was caught selling customers’ personal information to numerous third parties. Those parties then approached customers who were soon to be out of contract with sales pitches for other carriers. T-Mobile said this was done without its knowledge and that those responsible will be prosecuted.

T-Mobile, which recently announced plans to merge with fellow U.K. provider Orange, seems to be a company totally out of control. The constant service issues, and the severity of them, paired with this latest news, have left them with a very black eye that won’t soon heal. Their advertising and P.R. people have their work cut out for them!

Read [PC World]