Hackers have breached T-Mobile servers, exposing personal information on roughly 2 million customers, the mobile carrier has confirmed. Affected customers’ names, phone numbers, billing zip codes, email addresses, account numbers and account types may have been accessed, T-Mobile said. However, financial data, such as credit card or social security numbers, were not exposed. “On August 20, our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down an unauthorized access to certain information, including yours, and we promptly reported it to authorities,” T-Mobile said in a statement. “This was quickly discovered by our security team and shut down very fast,” a T-Mobile spokesperson told CyberScoop. “There’s no additional threat.” Asked who was responsible for the breach, the spokesperson said “it was an international group” of hackers who accessed the company’s servers through an API. “It was a small percentage of our 77 million customers that was affected (about 3 percent),” the spokesperson said. Mobile carriers […]
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