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Re:Open season on Virgin Mobile customer data by bduerst on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:26PM (#4534979)
With the brute force attack, wouldn't it shadow ban your IP address?

I know you can set up proxies, but if you shadow ban after 10 attempts, that's approximately 100,000 proxies to reach the brute force attack of 1,000,000 tries.

Re:Open season on Virgin Mobile customer data by Qualman on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:35PM (#4535274)
Thank you for taking issue with this. I use Virgin, and I never even considered how insecure this is. I'm going to hound them about it.
Re:Open season on Virgin Mobile customer data by carlsednaoui on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:42PM (#4534777)
This is absolutely unbelievable! Are you staying with them? I'm with Virgin, though not sure for how much longer...
Re:Open season on Virgin Mobile customer data by pavel_lishin on Monday September 17, 2012 @02:32PM (#4534074)
> I am asked to always include my phone number and PIN in replies to Virgin.

That's probably the scariest part of all of this, although maybe not quite so much if there's a non-email way to contact them.