T-Mobile hacker used brute force attack to steal customers’ data

By Saad Rajpoot
A 21-year-old US citizen named John Binns has claimed responsibility for the T-Mobile data breach and labeled the carrier’s “security is awful.”
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T-Mobile breach climbs to over 50 million people

T-Mobile on Friday announced roughly 6 million additional accounts had data was swiped in a recent hack, bringing the total number of victims of the breach to over approximately 55 million individuals. The revelations come as lawmakers have ramped up scrutiny of the company. An additional 5.3 million subscriber accounts had addresses, names, dates of birth, and phone numbers accessed, T-Mobile said. The company also found that the data of 667,000 more accounts of former T-Mobile customers, including their names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth, had been accessed Unlike the first set of customers identified by T-Mobile on Wednesday, none of these additional accounts had their Social Security Numbers or ID information compromised, the company said. The new findings also reveal that phone data, IMEI and IMSIs were also accessed. IMEIs, which are often used for advertising purposes, are a unique fingerprint for a device that cannot be […]

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T-Mobile confirms breach of more than 8 million customers’ data

T-Mobile confirmed Wednesday that the information of more than 8 million customers as well as 40 million former or potential customers who had applied for credit with the company was compromised in a recent data breach. The hacker accessed customers’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license or ID information from some portion of the 7.8 million subscribers exposed in the breach. No phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, or financial information were compromised for paying customers, according to the company. The company did not say if or how many of those 7.8 million customers were also involved in the credit application breach. Names, phone numbers, and PIN numberss of roughly 850,000 active pre-paid customers were exposed. T-Mobile said it has reset all PINs and will be notifying affected customers. The company said the hacker obtained “additional information from inactive pre-paid accounts accessed through prepaid billing files” from […]

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T-Mobile data breach: New information uncovered by the investigation

In the wake of the recent claims that T-Mobile U.S. has suffered a massive data breach and the consequent industry reactions, the company has shared additional information its internal investigation has uncovered. What the investigation has discovered … Continue reading T-Mobile data breach: New information uncovered by the investigation

T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a data breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer’s mobile device. Continue reading T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

T-Mobile investigates potentially massive breach of consumer data

T-Mobile is investigating claims by a hacker that they have put sensitive information about more than 100 million of the company’s customers up for sale after breaching its servers. The data set includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and driver’s license information, Motherboard first reported. The sales ad asks for six bitcoin, which is roughly the equivalent to $278,781 as of Monday morning, in exchange for 30 million Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses from the data set. “We are aware of claims made in an underground forum and have been actively investigating their validity,” T-Mobile said in a statement to multiple outlets Sunday. “We do not have any additional information to share at this time.” T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment from CyberScoop. T-Mobile has just over 100 million customers in the United States, meaning that the data set could cover a […]

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Hacker selling alleged stolen 100 million T-Mobile customer data for $200

By Waqas
The hacker claims to have hacked T-Mobile’s production, development, and staging servers around two weeks back, including its Oracle database server.
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