Customer passwords from Deutsche Telekom are for sale on the dark web

29. June 2016

Although the company stated this week that is has not been the victim of a cyber attack, account passwords from Deutsche Telekom, a German telecommunication company, are for sale on the dark web.

The respective stolen data was estimated to range from 64,000 records to 120,000 records.

Furthermore, the company hinted that the leaked data was obtained from another source, probably stolen via phishing. In its statement the company said that the sample of records were “real and current”.

The mentioned statement goes on by claiming that the company has 156 million global customers and that it has issued a warning due to the stolen data which suggests that all of its customers change their passwords.

Thomas Kremer, Telekom data privacy head, elaborates: “We want to use the event to promote a regular exchange of passwords”