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US phone supplier hit by data loss
Users of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.
The phones are made by a Microsoft Corporation subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, which say many Sidekick owners’ information is “almost certainly” gone.
T-Mobile gave customers a $20 (£12.6) refund to cover the cost of one month of data usage on the phone. It also will give certain customers who experienced a “significant and permanent” loss of personal data a $100 (£63.4) customer appreciation card to be used toward T-Mobile products and services, or their phone bill.
T-Mobile said it will contact those customers in the next 14 days.
Microsoft spokeswoman Debbie Anderson said that there was a still a chance some of the lost user data could be restored from a backup system. Engineers were working at it in the Microsoft data centre where the failure occurred, she said.
The phones were troubled by a data outage a week ago. Service was intermittent last week, and then users started reporting that their Sidekicks were wiped of all personal information.
“This has been a terrible experience,” said Mary Boyle, of Silver Spring, Maryland. She lost more than 500 contacts, 100 pictures, a to-do list and dozens of website passwords. She also spent about eight hours on the phone with T-Mobile’s technical support last week, trying to deal with the outage, she said.
On Saturday, T-Mobile and Microsoft warned customers not to restart their phones, remove the batteries or let the phones run down their batteries. Boyle said she did none of those things, yet her data disappeared anyway. She switched to a BlackBerry from Verizon Wireless on Monday, and said she had no intention of paying T-Mobile for quitting her contract early.
“As far as I’m concerned, they very much broke their contract with me before I broke theirs,” she said.
Although the underlying data services were working again on Monday, T-Mobile was still advising customers not to reset their phones. T-Mobile also was listing all Sidekicks as “out of stock” on its website on Monday.
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