Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

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coloneltcb•about 2 hours ago

this is especially problematic because now hackers have a comprehensive list of the most gullible people on the planet

starkeeper•about 2 hours ago

Hey it's no biggie they are exempt from all rules, norms, and principals. Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.

kibwen•about 1 hour ago

When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the PII.

lanewinfield•16 minutes ago

comment of the year award

blowscum•about 2 hours ago

> Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.

You joke, but this is actually a pattern I see a lot. Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism? Ive noticed it for years, mostly among GenX where they will zealously defend any idea/action they heard thats against mainstream narrative.

It’s like a “stick it to the man teenager” stereotype but these people are fucking 50+ years old now.

mkw5053•about 2 hours ago

I would not have believed you if you had told me they had the engineering and operations talent to prevent personal data leaks, among many other things.

Finnucane•about 2 hours ago

I would not have believed that they had 'engineering' or 'operations'.

Uncle_Brumpus•about 1 hour ago

"Hello, Aliexpress seller? Can you paint them gold?"

Is about how I expect it all went.

OgsyedIE•29 minutes ago

Given the facts of who it is that's impacted, isn't this the first good thing the administration has done?

dmbche•about 2 hours ago

Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield)

Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible.

neogodless•about 2 hours ago

In theory, maybe? This is behind a paywall...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-revi...

Title: Trump Mobile T1 phone test: device no longer ‘Made in the USA.’

Heading: We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA.’

ipython•about 2 hours ago

I was going to say that I saw some unwrapping videos online, but then I saw... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phon....

Personally, I still use my BidenPhone, which was an upgrade from my 2009-era ObamaPhone brick. /s

twobitshifter•about 1 hour ago

Coffeezilla bought one of these thinking they’d never be delivered about a week before they announced they would be shipping soon. He wanted to do an exposé on the delays and thought Trump would never release the phone He will now end up with a crappy phone and his personal info exposed

gowld•27 minutes ago

They haven't shipped yet. Only 2 media/reviewer mockup phones have been seen in public.

kookster310•about 2 hours ago

"Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data."

It was confirmed home/payment addresses were leaked, how is that not worthy of notification?

Clent•about 2 hours ago

There are regulatory rules on when disclosure must occur. They're saying they're not going to bother if it's not required.

866-RON-0-FEZ•about 2 hours ago

There was a time when telcos would print this information in a big book and deliver it to your porch for free.

giancarlostoro•about 2 hours ago

Hell, in some states you can find these details rather quickly since there's so much that is considered public record.

gowld•26 minutes ago

relevant username.

Not quite true, though, because that book charged money in exchange for privacy.

delecti•about 2 hours ago

Because who's going to make them?

motbus3•about 1 hour ago

My grandpa is almost 80 years old. He blatantly complains about stuff he doesn't understand but because he was once a big shot he think he does. He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice but the numbers are just options and have no correlation among each other. Eventually he does something that seems to make sense, but if you live enough time with him you'll see that's by chance.

866-RON-0-FEZ•about 2 hours ago

They must have hired the same developers as every other mobile operator.

morkalork•about 2 hours ago

Or the same devs as GiveSendGo and every other right-wing gifting platform

Jeremy1026•about 2 hours ago

Gifting, or grifting?

Findecanor•about 1 hour ago

I'm surprised that the idea for the Trump Phone was even conceived. I had thought that the drug king-pin Pablo Escobar pretty much owned the market for gold smartphones, and thus tainted it for anyone else.

amazingamazing•about 2 hours ago

Right up there with the rest or telco.

dataflow•about 2 hours ago

> The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile’s network, systems, or infrastructure.

Wait... what?

"I didn't lose your money because somebody broke into my house -- I only lost it because I left it sitting on the sidewalk. My house is actually fine, don't worry!"

thefreeman•about 2 hours ago

Well trump mobile almost definitely doesn't have a network, systems, or infrastructure to begin with. So I guess they are technically correct.

ourmandave•about 2 hours ago

The spokesperson said that the exposure was linked to a third-party platform provider that supports “certain Trump Mobile operations.” Walker did not name the provider.

Assuming somebody left a database open or password exposed.

thefreeman•about 2 hours ago

My money is on unauthed mongodb or public s3 bucket

tencentshill•about 1 hour ago

What are those? Our intern Bradley types victim, sorry Customer information in an excel spreadsheet all day and then emails it to his manager, who he's never met.

sizzzzlerz•about 1 hour ago

Oh, no! What an unexpected tragedy. In other news...

46493168•about 2 hours ago

The picture in the article features Trump holding an iPhone.

ethagnawl•30 minutes ago

He doesn't use any of this crap. He also wouldn't go within 100 feet of the vast majority of his supporters if he wasn't working an angle.

etchalon•about 2 hours ago

I can think of no product with the Trump name that hasn't proven to be a catastrophic disappointment or scam.

SomeHacker44•about 2 hours ago

The only thing with trump I like is a hand of bridge.

klaff•44 minutes ago

we started using the term obama for that just because we hate saying that other word

shoxidizer•about 1 hour ago

The 1989 board game is supposedly an acceptable variation on Monopoly. I guess it's sales were a disappointment for the publisher, but not catastrophic.

plagiarist•about 1 hour ago

The only surprise would be that it is not deliberate. Previously, the Trump White House deliberately exposed citizens' personal data. That's what customers should expect.