It made all the websites yesterday that Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile Sidekick got hacked leading to a public viewing of her cell phone pictures (some on the pornographic side) and hundreds of crank phone calls to famous people who had the misfortune of being in her address book.
I remember the first time this happened it led to an amusing sound bite:
“It became obvious to her what was going on. She was pretty upset about it. It’s one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails1 is a real invasion of privacy.”
But since I work for a company whose whole business is managing people’s customer data, I am more curious about the security hole that lead to the hack. Continue reading