Whether it should be, well that is another matter.
Whether it should be, well that is another matter.
There are several problems with this:
1.) The phone number can be found on the internet.
2.) The technician code is just noted down as part of the request. It is not verified.
3.) The support employee's validation process that they are a field technician was that they were calling over the special phone number.
Obviously sensitive information was not supposed to be given out, but they hired anyone that was alive enough to answer a phone and tell people to reset their router.
The PIN at least seems like it should have been hashed, then an employee puts in a form the stated PIN to see if it's correct and the hashes are compared on the backend.
The other info though is needed for initiating contact and to allow customers to perform transactions (verifying card details for example).