Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day
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Feed Name: The Register (Security)
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A PWNED column recounts that in the early 2000s a major US mobile carrier stored large amounts of customer PII — including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and full 16‑digit credit card numbers (sometimes with CVVs) — in cleartext within a production database that was accessible to a new DBA with sudo privileges; management later removed the data and changed processes to use the upstream billing system.
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