Australian wireless carrier Vodafone is feeling the full force of consequences stemming from the very common but unsafe practice of allowing shared passwords within enterprise accounts. Most enterprises turn a blind eye to shared account information, particularly among privileged accounts, experts say. Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim announced an investigation into the breach. Company fired a number of employees in connection to the potential breach and has terminated channel partner contracts with Communications Direct, which may have put 4 million customers at risk. VodAFone denies that the damages are as sweeping to affect millions of customers and claims that the breach is a “one-off””]
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