Hoofhaarted: I thought it was *********

freitasm: I've received a comment from Vodafone:

Vodafone takes data security and the privacy of our customers’ information extremely seriously.

We’ve investigated overnight and identified a small number of fixed broadband accounts that were allocated the same initial activation password when their accounts were set up last month, which had the potential to be accessed.

We have immediately remedied this issue by resetting all of the initial set-up passwords on these accounts.

We apologise for any concern this has caused our customers, and reassure them that it is not possible to access credit card details or personal financial information – contrary to what was reported.

Vodafone mobile customers are not affected.

We will continue to investigate our processes around account set-up to ensure our customers’ account security and privacy is maintained to the highest levels.

qyiet:

Hoofhaarted: I thought it was *********

All I see is stars, does your web browser do that automatically when you type a password in?   When I type my password: hunter2 it looks normal in my browser.

Hoofhaarted:

qyiet:

Hoofhaarted: I thought it was *********

All I see is stars, does your web browser do that automatically when you type a password in?   When I type my password: hunter2 it looks normal in my browser.

I typed the **'s deliberately, as a Joke.

freitasm:

Hoofhaarted:

qyiet:

Hoofhaarted: I thought it was *********

All I see is stars, does your web browser do that automatically when you type a password in?   When I type my password: hunter2 it looks normal in my browser.

I typed the **'s deliberately, as a Joke.

I think his comment was a joke too.

freitasm: This story is not really well written. Something fishy here.

Jaxar: Reference to this joke I believe.

joker97: You sure you did? 123456 still works

coffeebaron: This is bigger and more serious than first thought. There must be a master master password.