KPN gave customers business voip service same password

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KPN has a period of time, users of his business voipdienst completed. N the same password given. How many accounts exactly, is not exactly clear; KPN holds a specific limited group.

According to Jurgen Greven of ict-service provider of Creative Tools, the security issue has been discovered, managed to make all of the KPN ONE accounts to log in with the password “Qwerty=12′. KPN confirms that a group of users with the same password has been given, but denies that that for all users gold. “It comes to a specific, limited group,” said spokesman Maurice Piek, who, however, refuses to give in to how many accounts exactly.

Users had the default password, change it, but KPN told them not to, so many people the password is not changed. With the default password could Greven login to the business administration of ONE. That administration provides access to the accounts of employees and the call history. It was also possible to make a call.

Meanwhile, KPN has all the passwords reset. The telecom giant wants to not indicate where the security issue exactly was. Further complains Greven that he is not well informed is taken after the leak had been reported; only weeks later told KPN that the problem was solved, when Greven themselves to informed. According to KPN was the ‘provision of information, indeed, have been better’. “We are very grateful for the report of this issue”, said spokesman Peak.

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