Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
10:57 - AT&T: Your world delivered...to the wrong person.
http://gizmodo.com/5564913/proof-iphone-4-pre+orders-using-other-peoples-credit-card
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Title stolen from the comments of this Gizmodo story, which sounds like something out of 1996:
The first iPhone 4 pre-order day was a total disaster, with collapsed AT&T and Apple servers unable to take any orders, multiple incorrect purchases, reservations that didn't reserve anything, physical stores closing or having to take order with pen and paper, and, the worst of all, people entering into AT&T's account servers and seeing different customers' information on screen.
By itself, that's a major security problem. But it gets worse. According to emails sent by readers, the ordering system is mistakenly showing and using the wrong customers' personal information. Not only that, but the problem is affecting other systems: Reader Christian du Lac saw his credit card information changed to another person in his AT&T Wi-Fi Premium account...
Wrong credit cards showing up in your profile, iPhone 4 order confirmations (sometimes multiple) sent to people who never ordered one, failures to place a preorder... geez, AT&T is getting better and better at this "being on the cutting edge of the tech industry" thing.
Pretty soon they'll not only be seen as the weakest component of the iPhone ecosystem, but a branding boat-anchor that actively delegitimizes Apple by association.
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