Susie Nordqvist and Hamish Fletcher report:
Former employees have questioned Telecom’s security policies and one can still look up customer details despite having left his job two months ago.
Andrew Rozen, who worked in a customer service role from March to November last year, checked if he could access Telecom’s Wireline database after accusations of a security breach this month.
The breach allegedly allowed Power Marketing, a company working for Slingshot, access to Telecom’s Wireline database, which contains customers’ personal information.
“After reading a few articles on Wireline, I wondered if I could still access the site. After three or four attempts at [remembering] what my password was I got in, and had free rein,” Mr Rozen said.
Read more in the New Zealand Herald.