T-Mobile Austria is working to implement a basic security measure ‘as quickly as possible’

Last week, T-Mobile Austria customers got some terrible security news as a string of unplanned customer service tweets revealed that the company was storing passwords in plain text, which is a major violation of basic cybersecurity practices. Today, the company finally came clean and pledged to immediately implement password-hashing, a crucial protection in the event of a breach.
“Online-passwords will be salted and hashed in the future, as is considered state of the art in security,&rdqu