I heard about this on Radio 2 yesterday evening (Drive time) the
business correspondent stated that this was only discovered after Mr
Rose tried to gain access to his account recently.
He was asked for a security number which had been set by the imposter.
So even the real Mr Rose could not discuss his account because of the
security arrangements put in place by the imposter.
The actual pin itself then presumbably is keeping the data secure (not
even the real Mr Rose can get in!) but what kind of information was
required to make a security pin by the imposter? Obviously it was not
sufficient enough......
Regards
Mark
>>> Carl Johnson <[log in to unmask]> 01/07/04 13:57:32 >>>
I read with interest yesterday that o2 have possibly released call
records
relating to Mr Rose.
The BBC website states:
"The spokesman added that any impostor would have to know a
substantial
amount of information about the person they were pretending to be in
order
to get past security checks"
Really? Is that so? I feel that with as much as a name, address and
DOB,
one could obtain these kind of records. As a result, any interested
party
could possibly obtain this information about any of us.
How can this information be better protected? Surely, with a great
deal
of information about all of us readily available, we should be
insisting
on tighter security of this sensitive information.
I'd be interested in an comments on this matter.
Rgds,
Carl
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