Protecting Your T-Mobile Account from Unauthorized Access (or How to Avoid Getting Burned like Paris Hilton)

Gizmodo has a great story on hacking into your T-Mobil account. Or as the everyone on Internet likes to call it, the Hilton Hack for what happened to you-know-who. For those more interested in the solution, read on:

Protecting Your T-Mobile Account Step-By-Step
“Dial your T-Mobile voicemail from your mobile phone. If you don’t know your PIN number, you can set a new one by doing the following: Access your ‘personal options’ by pressing 4. ‘Modify your personal preferences’ by pressing 4, again. Then ‘modify your password’ by pressing 1. Set a new PIN and write it down somewhere secure, if necessary.

“After you reset your pin, press the * key to go back to the ‘personal options’ menu (or press 4 from the main menu if you already knew your PIN). Once you have accessed the ‘personal options’ menu you will then press 8 which will enable password authentication when calling from your own mobile phone. Although entering your password every single time you call your voicemail can be a bit of a nuisance, a few seconds of your time is a small price to pay for the security of your voicemail system.” Source:Gizmodo