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The T-Mobile G1 Android-based smartphone may have hit stores only last week, but a researcher is already warning about a flaw in the phone's Web browser that could compromise users' online activity.

Charles Miller, principal analyst at security consultancy Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), said the vulnerability enables hackers to control and redirect browser activity and gain access to data such as cookies used for accessing sites, information typed into Web page fields and passwords. Miller reported the issue to Google on Oct. 20.

T-Mobile, the G1's exclusive carrier, and Google -- chief backer for the open source Android platform -- are working on a software patch that may be delivered over-the-air to customers' G1 devices, they said.

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