How Honest Was T-Mobile about the Enormous Data Breach?

Another significant data breach affecting an international company was recently disclosed. T-Mobile announced that it was hit by hackers and as a result of the attack, personal information of some 2 million customers was compromised. This personal info… Continue reading How Honest Was T-Mobile about the Enormous Data Breach?

T-Mobile data breach: Personal data of 2 million users stolen

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The stolen data also includes “encrypted” passwords. Another day, another T-Mobile data breach. This time, the telecommunication giant T-Mobile has announced that it has suffered a data breach in which unknown hackers have stolen p… Continue reading T-Mobile data breach: Personal data of 2 million users stolen

T-Mobile breach exposes data on 2 million customers

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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T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers’ Personal Data Stolen

T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of “some” personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers.

The leaked information includes customer… Continue reading T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers’ Personal Data Stolen

Hackers have stolen details of two million T-Mobile customers

Telecoms provider T-Mobile has admitted that hackers gained access to some of its customer data this week.
No social security numbers, payment card data, or passwords included in the haul, but that doesn’t mean you have nothing to worry about.
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Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely. Continue reading Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims.

On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher, an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.” Continue reading Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy