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The Press Conference of Resolving Customer Information Leakage Crisis of Mobile World
The Press Conference of Resolving Customer Information Leakage Crisis of Mobile World
Warm greetings to all the guests and journalists who came to the press
conference of our Mobile World Joint Stock Company today. Please settle in
your seat, turn off your phones so that the substance of the press conference can
be more transparent.
● Ms. Trixie Lai is the General Director and the representative of MWG.
● Ms. Kristen Quinn is the Technical Director of MWG
● Ms. Jenny Ho is the representative of the Information Security
Department of Ho Chi Minh City who will join us to clarify the recent
confusing incident.
Now, I would like to invite the Director of Mobile World Joint Stock Company,
Ms. Trixie Lai to have a few words. Please Ma’am.
GENERAL DIRECTOR:
Good afternoon, my name is Ms. Trixie Lai and I’m the Director of Mobile
World Joint Stock Company. Today, on behalf of Mobile World Group, I would
like to express my sincerest thanks to all the media who were present at today's
press conference. Following the agenda of our crisis resolution, we will have 3
parts:
1. Crisis Summary
2. Explaining & Troubleshooting crisis
3. Questions and Answers
The reason our company held a press conference was because we wanted to
clarify questions about leaking customer information at Mobile World. On June
4th, a personal account named “Erwincho '' was uploaded to Raid Forums files
believed to be information of more than 5.4 million customers of our company
including email data, card data Banking, even transaction history... Immediately
after that, we had an investigation, we reviewed the entire system of the
company and we wanted to correct it with our guests and reporters currently
here that the information being circulated on this forum is incorrect. Our Mobile
World is confident with information security policies and techniques. We
confirm that there is absolutely no leak of customers' personal information.
Because this incident has caused a lot of damage to our company as well as left
a bad look in the eyes of customers who have trusted and used the services at
Mobile World Joint Stock Company, so we commit to continue to investigate
and clarify so that you can trust and keep supporting our new products in the
future.
THE HOST:
As for the recent share of Ms. Trixie Lai, we would like to emphasize to you
that: “Our company is committed to secure the privacy of customers'
confidential information, in order to respect and protect the rights and interests
of every customer.” However, relating to the incident at Mobile World Joint
Stock Company during recent times has caused customers to panic and lose
confidence in our company. To answer customer questions as well as strengthen
trust, I would like to invite Ms.Kristen Quinn - Technical Director to share more
details to all the journalists present at the press conference.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR:
Dear all, after it was reported that Mobile World's technology system was
hacked by hackers, causing customers' financial information to be disclosed on
Raid Forums, our company has thoroughly checked the whole system. And
today, I would like to confirm to you that this is false information, Mobile
World's Information Technology system is still safe, operating normally and
unaffected.
Because of that, the hacker Erwincho's claim to have hacked the Mobile World
system to get the information is not true. It's impossible that they can get the
information which is not stored by our company. Thank you.
THE HOST:
As you know about the leak of customer information of Mobile World Joint
Stock Company, you may also suspect that it is very likely that customers using
Mobile World's services have leaked some personal information. However, after
the serious investigation, count to this current date June 9th, 2021; We have not
noticed any signs of attacks on system components related to personal
information being disclosed as well as signs of attacks on the company's user
personal information processing system MWG like this information is being
spread
THE HOST:
Dear all, that is the information that Mobile World Joint Stock Company has
until now and we want to clarify it for our beloved customers.
And now it's time for the journalists here to ask questions. So that we can
interact and exchange information that you are interested in Mobile World.
Besides that, we have also prepared the necessary information for the
presentation on powerpoint for you to easily follow the content. Please feel free
to ask questions. However, we are also extremely sorry for the limited time, so
we will answer a limit of 5 questions from the journalists present here. Sincerely
thanks!
Q&As:
J1: Excuse me, I'm a reporter from Tuoi Tre newspaper. I have a question.
According to you guys, Mobile World has had obvious damages, so can you
share what they are?
General Director:
Thanks for your question. I think I will be the one who answers this question.
Yes, honestly, the biggest damage was that our customers were puzzled and
worried. This incident has made our customers lose the trust and prestige of the
Mobile World brand because this misleading incident has caused a lot of
damage to our company, MWG shares of Mobile World Joint Stock Company
were only traded at 110,000 VND/share, down 2,000 VND, equivalent to 1.8%
of the value. With this drastic decrease, our company's capitalization estimate
has "evaporated" nearly 650 billion dong in just 1 day. Therefore, it has led to a
sharp drop in the value of our company's stock. This is an issue that we
absolutely do not want to happen. However, by this press conference and your
multi-dimensional writing, we believe the consumers will have a clearer view
and they can keep supporting us.
J2: Hello everyone, I am a reporter from VietnamNet newspaper. I have a
question: We received information sent to the newspaper that your Mobile
World currently does not protect consumer information effectively. What can
you say about this?
Technical Director:
As we have confirmed, the information that hackers share online is fake. The
confidential information of our customers is still under our absolute control. Up
to now, the company's information system and thegioididong.com website are in
a safe state and are the latest updates. And we also don't detect vulnerabilities or
cyber crime attacks. We guarantee that the customer information is always
being secured with our technical system. Thank you.
J3: So ma'am, in addition, we are told that there is a file allegedly stolen from
Mobile World showing the transaction history with the customer's unit number,
purchase address, credit card number, how would you explain this issue?
Technical Director:
After hearing the above information, we had an inspection to review the entire
security information system of the customer and we found that everything was
still normal, no data was spread out.
Regarding the disclosure of transaction history with the unit number, purchase
address, and credit card number of the customer, those news are all fake. As I
have said before, because the POS machine will read the customer's card and
transfer all the data to the bank, so in essence the bank is reading the customer's
card and storing the information. It can also be said that our system does not
store these customer data. Similarly, if a customer pays online through the
website, when paying will jump to a third-party payment gateway, so the
Mobile World website cannot save the customer's information. So if they go to
our website, it’s totally safe.
General Director: Actually, there's no need to wait until something goes wrong
in our company's information technology system, even if it's intentionally
attributed to something that Mobile World doesn't relate to, the Mobile World's
security process and information processing system has always been operating
safely at the highest level of security. In addition, our system security team
always implements a strict monitoring regime 24/24.
In the future, if the above incident really happens and comes from a technology
error in Mobile World's system, the company is ready to accept responsibility
and quickly fix the problem. The interests of our customers are always our top
priority.
J5: Ms Trixie Lai, do you have any recommendation or advice for the
consumers as well as other companies through this incident?
- Monitoring early detection of risks and signs of network attacks and promptly
handling arising problems.
THE HOST:
Thank you for the questions from journalists and the answers from the
representatives. Ladies and gentlemen, The Q&A parts is the last part of the
conference. Our time for the meeting is going to end.
We hope that the information we provided would help clarify questions as well
as convey messages to customers. I hereby declare the end of the press
conference. Once again, we would like to thank everyone who took their
valuable time to attend the press conference. We wish you health and success.
Please keep supporting us.