BT investigated over email data

[Simon]

BT is being investigated by the UK's data authority after a whistleblower claimed the company "exposed user credentials en masse".

BT is currently moving its customers' email accounts from a Yahoo-powered system to its own bespoke set-up.

As revealed by The Register, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is looking into BT's data practices during this process.

BT told the BBC the complaint "relates to an issue identified and fixed".

The whistleblower is believed to have been a former employee of Critical Path, the company tasked with building BT's new system for email. Critical Path was acquired last year by Openwave, a California-based messaging specialist.

On behalf of BT, the company must gradually switch over seven million customers from Yahoo to BT. The whistleblower said the method Critical Path was using was insecure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26480381

[Technical Ben]

I could have told you that. I've had friends get calls moments after putting the phone down to BT, from someone saying "I'm the technician from BT" but then talks them through installing malware.
Happened too many times with people for it to be random calls, as random calls would not tally up so close with the actual BT tech centre calls.

Add to that loads of companies calling me to sell me BT connections, but strangely not being able to provide a company address/contact details. All the while I was on BT/with IDNet, and even though I'd not given out the number. Oh, the calls started the day I LEFT BT. Coincidence?

I've decided BT are unsecured in practice as a company.