[ISN] Vodafone reviews security systems after burglary causes network outage

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 01:09:00 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/02/28/245653/Vodafone-reviews-security-systems-after-burglary-causes-network.htm

By Jenny Williams
ComputerWeekly.com
28 February 2011

Vodafone is reviewing its security systems after the burglary at one of 
its exchange facilities left thousands of UK users without phone or 
text-messaging services.

Between 1am and 2am, thieves stole specialist network equipment and IT 
hardware after breaking down a door at the Vodafone exchange facility in 
Basingstoke, Hampshire. Vodafone say its network control centre and the 
police were immediately alerted.

The damage left thousands of Vodafone users in the M4 corridor area 
unable to make calls or send text messages since the early hours of the 
morning.

Vodafone is now reviewing its security systems. "All our sites are 
protected by high level security systems. We're reviewing these with the 
police in the light of last night's break in," wrote a Vodafone employee 
in a Vodafone internet forum.

Hampshire Constabulary has confirmed it is in the early stages of 
investigating a burglary at a Vodafone technical facility in Hamilton 
Close, Basingstoke, during the early hours of this morning. 

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