At T Says Personal Customer Info Taken In Security Breach By Smartphone Unlocking Service
IDG News Service reports AT&T has experienced a security breach that allowed employees working on behalf of a smartphone unlocking service to access personal information, call records and Social Security numbers of customers. The second-hand unlocking market, which sees services like Chronic Unlocks charging to remove software locks on devices preventing them from being used on other carriers, continues to be somewhat of a grey area. Earlier this year the US House of Representatives passed a bill that reversed an earlier decision by the Library of Congress to make unlocking a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but it received criticism from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other industry watchers....