Comments on: Fasttelco glitches Google

By: Fasttelco hates bloggers.

Fasttelco hates bloggers. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:58:48 +0000

[...] Remember a months back when we informed Fasttelco users that their personal information was being leaked by their ISP. [...]

By: 3azeez

3azeez — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:08:57 +0000

“So many people have encountered this problem and have called Fastelco to find out what’s going on. Fastelco should be acknowledging the problem at least and, obviously, trying to fix it”

You know what is funny? When I called FastTelco to tell them about the problem, They told me its weekend and their engineers are taking the day off. I should call them back after the weekend! That really got me pissed. And I demanded to speak with the Supervisor and the guy ended up handing the phone to someone else who was also taking the problem slightly…
I only managed to draw their attention when I told them that I will contact the owners of the 30 emails i’ve accessed and saw their personal information (and pictures) and I will ask them to go with me to el ma5far and file a complaint against fast telco. only then they started acting like looking for solution.

By: MK

MK — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:51:26 +0000

This is what i think is wrong! all of us over the last decade or so have put too much information on the internet about ourselves, personal information etc. We have to bow down to the ULTIMATE CONNECTED SYSTEM of todays world. For political agendas information can be retrieved so easily with punching a few keyboard buttons .. I guess in a way we are not free afterall!

By: red riding

red riding — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:21:20 +0000

The comments about the Cnet News.com article give the impression that this is just a Google/Gmail/Ebay issue. It’s NOT. I had the same problem with Amazon.com. I could see 4 or 5 other people’s account information (their carts, their wish lists, etc.). I called Amazon.com and they seem baffled, though they assured me that my account information would not be vulnerable. A few days later, the problem seemed resolved, and I have placed orders from Amazon since then. I am convinced, however, that this was NOT an Amazon problem. When I called Fastelco, they said that they were aware of a problem with Amazon which was due to a service they had outsourced. They claim that they have now brought that service in house and the problem has been resolved. BUT, they insist that they are completely unaware of any other problems with Gmail or Ebay, which is ridiculous! So many people have encountered this problem and have called Fastelco to find out what’s going on. Fastelco should be acknowledging the problem at least and, obviously, trying to fix it. It should be posting updates regularly on their website. THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!

By: Bojacob

Bojacob — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:31:56 +0000

This is pretty alarming. I’m not sure why I missed that previous post as it was too interesting to miss!

Any clues yet as to why this would happen? DNS poisoning seems very unlikely

Might it be that the caches are sending cached pages along with their stored cookies? Ehh, that seems unlikey too (and probably wouldn’t work anyway.)

I’m stumped. Keep us informed!

By: Moey

Moey — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:43:01 +0000

Finally!

By: 3azeez

3azeez — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:22:59 +0000

heheheh… thank YOU, K. I feel famous now :D

heheheh.

~36o